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    Artwork Survey: 1990s

    Glenn Ligon
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    • Untitled (I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background)
      1990
      Oil, oil stick, gesso, and graphite on wood
      80 × 30 inches
      Collection of Eileen Harris-Norton

      Photo: Dennis Cowley

      © Glenn Ligon

    • Untitled (I’m Turning into a Specter before Your Very Eyes and I’m Going to Haunt You)
      1992
      Oil stick, gesso, and graphite on canvas
      80 1/8 × 32 1/8 × 2 inches
      Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; purchased with the Adele Haas Turner and Beatrice Pastorius Turner Memorial Fund, 1992

      © Glenn Ligon

    • Notes on the Margin of the Black Book
      1991-93
      Ninety-one offset prints
      11 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches each (framed); seventy-eight text pages, 5 1/4 × 7 1/4 inches each (framed)
      Collection of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Gift of the Bohen Foundation

      Photo: Ronald Amstutz

      © Glenn Ligon

    • Notes on the Margin of the Black Book
      detail
      1991-93
      Ninety-one offset prints
      11 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches each (framed); seventy-eight text pages, 5 1/4 × 7 1/4 inches each (framed)

      Photo: Ron Amstutz

      © Glenn Ligon

    • Runaways
      detail
      1993
      Suite of 10 lithographs
      16 × 12 inches each

      Edition of 45, 10 AP

      Photo: Dennis Cowley

      © Glenn Ligon

    • Runaways
      detail
      1993
      Suite of 10 lithographs
      16 × 12 inches each

      Edition of 45, 10 AP

      Photo: Dennis Cowley

      © Glenn Ligon

    • Ice Cube’s Eyes
      1995
      Silkscreen ink on canvas punching bag
      51 × 14 × 15 inches
      Private collection

      Photo: Dennis Cowley

      © Glenn Ligon

    • Self-Portrait
      1996
      Silkscreen ink and gesso on canvas
      48 × 40 inches
      Collection of the artist

      Photo: Dennis Cowley

      © Glenn Ligon

    • Self-Portrait
      1996
      Silkscreen ink and gesso on canvas
      48 × 40 inches

      Photo: Dennis Cowley

      © Glenn Ligon

    • Hands
      1996
      Silkscreen ink and gesso on unstretched canvas
      82 × 144 inches
      Collection of Eileen Harris Norton

      Photo: Dennis Cowley

      © Glenn Ligon

    • Condition Report
      right panel
      2000
      Silkscreen on iris prints
      Diptych, 32 × 22 3/4 inches each, 34 1/4 × 25 inches each framed

      Edition of 20

      Photo: Dennis Cowley

      © Glenn Ligon

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