Object number2009.25.5

Testimony

Portfolio/Seriesfrom the Testimony suite

Date2005

Artist Kara Walker (American, born 1969)

CultureAmerican

MediumPhotogravure on Hahnemühle paper

EditionEdition 15 of 40, plus 6 artist's proofs

DimensionsPlate: 16 1/2 x 21 3/4 in. (41.9 x 55.2 cm)
Sheet: 22 3/8 x 31 in. (56.8 x 78.7 cm)
Matted: 25 1/2 x 32 in. (64.8 x 81.3 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund

On View

Not on view

Period21st c

Classification(s)

Photograph

SignedOn recto, initialed lower right margin corner in pencil: KW

InscribedOn recto, by artist, lower right margin corner in pencil: 2005; lower left margin corner: 15/40

MarkingsOn recto, Lower East Side Print Shop blind stamp lower left margin corner: [an arm with a sleeve rolled up with the hand on a print roller]

ProvenancePurchased from Swann Auction Galleries, Photographs & Photographic Literature, October 22, 2009, lot 326

Vassar Exhibitions

Reflections: Portrayals of and by African Americans

Kara Walker's Testimony

American Impressions: Nation in Prints

Haunting Legacies: Photography and the Invisible

Exhibition HistoryReflections: Portrayals of and by African Americans, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 10 - August 19, 2018;

Kara Walker's Testimony, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Gallery, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 30 - December 22, 2023
DescriptionBlack and white image of a film still depicting a person's hand reaching down and manipulating a shadow puppet silhouette of a spindly-figured person riding a horse.

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