Artwork Survey: 1990s

Kara Walker

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  1. 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

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

    Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

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

    Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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