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Open today 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Admission is always free

6th and Constitution Ave NW
Washington, DC 20565

Sculpture Garden Extended Hours

Open late until 8:00 p.m. on select nights
Through September 5
Exhibitions & Events
America’s 250th

Celebrating American art and artists
Art & Artists
Open Call

Artists Reimagining the Collection
Meet the 50 makers selected from more than 1,600 submissions

Freedom, a Fable: A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times

1997

Kara Walker

Associated Names

Kara Walker

Artist, American, born 1969

Typecraft Inc., Pasadena, California

Printer

David Eisen

Designer, American

Roswell Book Binders, Phoenix, Arizona

Bookbinder

Peter Norton Family, Santa Monica, California

Publisher

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G28

Artwork overview

Medium

bound volume of offset lithographs on wove paper with five laser-cut, pop-up black-paper silhouettes
Credit Line

Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
Dimensions

overall: 23.8 x 21.3 cm (9 3/8 x 8 3/8 in.)
Accession Number

2007.6.275

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Vogel, New York; gift to NGA, 2007.

Associated Names

Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Vogel

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