Dense black scribble fills the lower third of a mostly blank white page.

Drawings

re-writing Black History, 400 years of bondage, 25 years of Boredom

1994

Medium: Brush and ink on paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 18 × 12 in. (45.7 × 30.5 cm)
Accession number: 96.111
Acquired: 1996
Credit line: Purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee
Reproduction credit: © 1994 Kara Walker
Department: collection

About this work

Kara Walker, re-writing Black History, 400 years of bondage, 25 years of Boredom, 1994. Brush and ink on paper, sheet: 18 × 12 in. (45.7 × 30.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee 96.111. © 1994 Kara Walker

Exhibitions featuring the artist

Exhibitions in the Whitney's archive featuring any of the artists listed for this work. Artwork-level exhibition history is not published by the museum; the list below is artist-level.

Edges of Ailey 2024-09-25 – 2025-02-09
Inheritance 2023-06-28 – 2024-02-04
Jason Moran 2019-09-20 – 2020-01-05
An Incomplete History of Protest: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1940–2017 2017-08-18 – 2018-08-27
America Is Hard to See 2015-05-01 – 2015-09-27
Blues for Smoke 2013-02-07 – 2013-04-28
Whitney Biennial 2012 2012-03-01 – 2012-05-27
Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love 2007-10-11 – 2008-02-03
Down by Law 2006-01-21 – 2006-05-21
New Additions: Prints for an American Museum Part I 2003-10-31 – 2004-01-25
Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990's 1997-11-26 – 1998-01-04
Whitney Biennial 1997 1997-03-20 – 1997-06-01

re-writing Black History, 400 years of bondage, 25 years of Boredom

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