A black silhouette of a person falling upside down with beads and loose clothing.

Prints

African/American

1998

Medium
Linoleum cut and blind embossing on paper
Dimensions
Sheet (sight, irregular): 45 7/8 × 60 1/2 in. (116.5 × 153.7 cm) Plate (sight, irregular): 35 3/4 × 43 1/8 in. (90.8 × 109.5 cm)
Accession number
2024.294
Acquired
2024
Credit line
Gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Reproduction credit
© 1998 Kara Walker
Edition
LP 4, Ed. 40
Department
collection

About this work

Kara Walker, African/American, 1998. Linoleum cut and blind embossing on paper, sheet (sight, irregular): 45 7/8 × 60 1/2 in. (116.5 × 153.7 cm) Plate (sight, irregular): 35 3/4 × 43 1/8 in. (90.8 × 109.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection 2024.294. © 1998 Kara Walker

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