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This pop-up book has laser-cut black silhouettes on white paper. Text contrasts with background; white text on black pages, black text on white pages. There is a ship embossed on the cover of the book.
Kara Walker (American (North American))
Freedom, a Fable
1997
Gift of The Peter Norton Family Foundation
1997/1.527
A horizontal lighbox enclosed by a wide, black molded frame in which Kara Walker's signature silhouettes are encased in linen and lit from behind. Silhouettes represent four figures: a man and child at viewer's left, two women at right.
Kara Walker (American (North American))
Untitled
1996 – 1997
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund and anonymous individual benefactors
2006/1.152
White glazed porcelain pitcher with two different black silhouette faces in profile, one on each side.
Kara Walker (American (North American))
Untitled
2014
Museum Purchase
2014/2.2
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