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Prevalence of Ritual: Baptism

Artist Romare Howard Bearden (American, 1911-1988)
Copy Right Holder VAGA at Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
Copy Right Holder Romare Bearden Foundation
Date1964
Dimensionsimage: 37 x 48 1/16 in. (94 x 122 cm)
frame: 38 3/16 x 49 3/16 in. (97 x 125 cm)
Classification(s)
  • PHOTO
Credit LineMuseum purchase, Ruth Sabin Weston Fund
Terms
  • African-American
  • masks
  • faces
Object number69.14
Descriptionphotograph of a photo collage, also referred to as a "projection" by the artist
Inscribedl.r. in white: [illegible signature]; verso u.l. on sticker: Baptism Prevalence of Ritual
On View
Not on view
Exhibitions
Teaching events
Rashida Braggs, AFR 216, s20
Tidings
Romare Howard Bearden
1973
Pilate (Misty Island)
Romare Howard Bearden
1979
Untitled
Joseph Cornell
c. 1958