A large dark mound reveals silhouetted figures resting inside against a distant landscape.

Prints

Foote's Gun-Boats Ascending to Attack Fort Henry

2005

Medium
Photolithograph and screenprint
Dimensions
Sheet: 39 × 53 in. (99.1 × 134.6 cm) Image: 22 1/2 × 33 1/2 in. (57.2 × 85.1 cm)
Accession number
2005.91.1
Acquired
2005
Credit line
Purchase with funds from the Print Committee
Reproduction credit
© 2005 Kara Walker
Edition
2/35
Publication
Printed and published by LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies
Department
collection

About this work

Kara Walker, Foote's Gun-Boats Ascending to Attack Fort Henry, 2005. Photolithograph and screenprint, sheet: 39 × 53 in. (99.1 × 134.6 cm) Image: 22 1/2 × 33 1/2 in. (57.2 × 85.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Print Committee 2005.91.1. © 2005 Kara Walker

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