untitled (John Brown), Kara Walker; Landfall Press

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Kara Walker; Landfall Press, untitled (John Brown)
Kara Walker; Landfall Press, untitled (John Brown)
Kara Walker
untitled (John Brown)
1997
Kara Walker, artist
born 1969
untitled (John Brown), 1997
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: aquatint; etching; wove paper
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 305 x 229 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 457 x 381 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 18 0.9921 x 15 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Mary Kathryn Bangert Memorial
Accession number: 1997.0042
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "A Kansas Arts Sampler," Oct-2004, Kate Meyer Kara Walker investigates issues of race and gender particularly relevant to the African-American experience by recontextualizing the imagery and history of slavery. Walker presents this version of the abolitionist John Brown through a more intimate and delicate rendering than the silhouette cutout motif for which she is known, a traditionally nineteenth-century method of depiction.