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    Kara Walker
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    • Negress Notes
      1996
      Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper
      10 1/4 × 7 inches
      Collection Susan and Lewis Manilow

      Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

    • Negress Notes
      1996
      Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper
      9 × 6 inches
      Collection George Lindemann

      Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

    • Negress Notes
      1996
      Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper
      9 × 6 inches
      Collection George Lindemann

      Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

    • Slavery! Slavery! presenting a GRAND and LIFELIKE Panoramic Journey into Picturesque Southern Slavery or "Life at 'Ol' Virginny's Hole' (sketches from Plantation Life)" See the Peculiar Institutions as never before! All cut from black paper by the able hand of Kara Elizabeth Walker, an Emancipated Negress and leader in her Cause
      Installation view, "no place (like home)," at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1997
      1997
      Cut paper and adhesive on wall
      12 × 85 feet

      Photo by Dan Dennehy for the Wal

      Collection of Eileen and Peter Norton, Sanata Monica, California

      Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

    • Burn
      1998
      Cut paper and adhesive on wall
      92 1/8 × 48 inches
      Collection of Jerry and Katherine Speyer

      Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

    • Cut
      1998
      Cut paper and adhesive on wall
      7 feet 4 inches × 4 feet 6 inches
      Collection of Donna and Cargill MacMillan

      Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

    • No mere words can Adequately reflect the Remorse this Negress feels at having been Cast into such a lowly state by her former Masters and so it is with a Humble heart that she brings about their physical Ruin and earthly Demise
      Installation view at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California
      1999
      Cut paper and adhesive on painted wall
      10 × 65 feet
      Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

      Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

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