Black Venus
c. 1957
Artist, American, 1915 - 2010
Artwork overview
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Medium
linocut
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Credit Line
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation
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Dimensions
image: 35.9 × 28.2 cm (14 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
sheet: 47.7 × 36.4 cm (18 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.) -
Accession
2008.115.29
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Dave H. and Reba W. Williams, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2008
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2021
Afro-Atlantic Histories, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, 2021-2024 (shown only in Washington and Los Angeles), no repro.
Bibliography
2021
Pedrosa, Adriano, and Toledo, Tomàs, editors.Afro-Atlantic Histories. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2021-2022.
Inscriptions
In scripted pencil: lower left, "Black Venus" (within quotes); lower center, 10/50; lower right, Margaret Burroughs; within the plate: lower right, M.B.
Wikidata ID
Q76440173