A giant silhouette staggers while a smaller figure swings an axe to strike it.

Prints

Crest of Pine Mountain, Where General Polk Fell

2005

Medium
Photolithograph and screenprint
Dimensions
Sheet: 38 7/8 × 53 in. (98.7 × 134.6 cm) Image: 16 1/4 × 34 9/16 in. (41.3 × 87.8 cm)
Accession number
2005.91.14
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, Crest of Pine Mountain, Where General Polk Fell, 2005. Photolithograph and screenprint, sheet: 38 7/8 × 53 in. (98.7 × 134.6 cm) Image: 16 1/4 × 34 9/16 in. (41.3 × 87.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Print Committee 2005.91.14. © 2005 Kara Walker

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