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Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

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Printed with tones of black, gray, and smoky gray, two oversized hands reach out of an ocean and hold up a masted ship in this horizontal etching, aquatint, and drypoint. Closer to us, the black silhouette of a woman sinks under the surface of the water, face down with her arms thrust back and her mouth gaping open. Her features are exaggeratedly rounded to reference stereotypes historically connected with Black and African people. The wave surges to our left, and the giant hands lift the boat just left of center of the composition. Small in scale, two silhouetted people stand on a flat area to the left. One wears a brimmed, flat-topped hat, a coat with tails, and holds up a tool, perhaps a hoe. The other wears a spiky headdress and skirt and holds up a stalk of sugar cane. The sky is pale gray to either side of a plume of white and a black void with jagged edges, which spreads like a seeping stain down the middle of the sky. Under the image and across the bottom of the page, the artist wrote “A.P. VI/VIII” to the left and “KW 2010” to the right lightly in graphite.
Kara Walker, Greg Burnet, Burnet Editions Master Printers, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., no world, 2010, color etching, drypoint, and aquatint with sugarlift and spitbite on Hahnemühle Copperplate wove paper, Donald and Nancy de Laski Fund, 2015.42.1

no world

Kara Walker, Greg Burnet, Burnet Editions Master Printers, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. · 2010 · color etching, drypoint, and aquatint with sugarlift and spitbite on Hahnemühle Copperplate wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.42.1

Amy Sillman, Blue Diagram, 2009, oil on canvas, Gift of Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz, 2018.115.1

Blue Diagram

Amy Sillman · 2009 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2018.115.1

Jeffrey Gibson, The Anthropophagic Effect, Garment No. 4, 2019, canvas, satin, cotton, brass grommets, nylon thread, artificial sinew, split reed, glass and plastic beads, nylon ribbon, Lehrman Fund and Millennium Fund, 2023.7.1

The Anthropophagic Effect, Garment No. 4

Jeffrey Gibson · 2019 · canvas, satin, cotton, brass grommets, nylon thread, artificial sinew, split reed, glass and plastic beads, nylon ribbon ·  Accession ID  2023.7.1

Jeffrey Gibson, WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, 2024, glass beads, plastic beads, nylon fringe, nylon thread, acrylic felt, found punching bag, Gift of Funds from Reid Walker, Sasha and Charlie Sealy, Laurie Tisch Illumination Fund, and Janet Benton and David Schunter, Max Yawney, 2024.59.1

WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT

Jeffrey Gibson · 2024 · glass beads, plastic beads, nylon fringe, nylon thread, acrylic felt, found punching bag ·  Accession ID  2024.59.1