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Artist:
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Kara Walker
Landfall Press, American
Landfall Press, American
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Title:
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African/American
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Date:
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1998
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Medium:
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Linoleum cut
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Dimensions:
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46 1/2 x 60 1/2 in. (118.11 x 153.67 cm) (sheet)
49 1/4 x 65 1/8 in. (125.1 x 165.42 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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The Walter R. Bollinger Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 254
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Kara Walker began working in the 1990s in an obsolete artistic medium, the cut-paper silhouette, which she radically transformed into a potent language to explore a range of issues in American history and society, mainly related to slavery, violence, and sexual exploitation.
In this linoleum cut, Walker depicts the solitary nude figure of a female African American slave, caught in mid-air as she tumbles down. The image is at once elegant and disturbing, elegant in form and compositional harmony yet disturbing in its dark and foreboding content.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Walker, Kara
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Nationality:
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American
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Life Dates:
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(American, born 1969)
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Name:
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Landfall Press, American
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Role:
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Publisher
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Name:
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Landfall Press, American
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Role:
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Printer
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature and Title at bottom of sheet, in pencil: [(c) African/American KW]
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Classification:
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Prints
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Physical Description:
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black-on-white silhouette of a woman in a horizontal format; woman has short curly hair and wears a long bead necklace and large cuff bracelet on PL wrist; ribbons at woman's hips; long hair between legs (pubic hair or skirt material?)
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Creation Place:
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North America, United States, , ,
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Edition:
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Edition of 40; total edition of 59, including all proofs
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Accession #:
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2009.21
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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