Object number2009.25.4

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 1/4 x 30 7/8 in. (56.5 x 78.4 cm)
Matted: 25 5/8 x 32 in. (65.1 x 81.3 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund

On View

Not on view

Period20th 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

Kara Walker's Testimony

Exhibition HistoryKara 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 shadow puppet silhouette of a spindly-figured person riding a horse with a shotgun raised upwards in their hand and a person with their head bowed and arms and legs likely bound standing in front of the horse. At right and above are silhouettes of possible trees and moss and a lantern hangs from a noose tied to the branch above at center.

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