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Ballad of the Foreseeable Future from Negress Notes (Slavery Reparations Act)
Artist
Kara Walker
(American ; b. 1969, Stockton, CA)
Copy Right Holder
The Artist
CultureAmerican
Date2003
Mediumwatercolor on paper
Dimensions9 × 12 1/4 in. (22.9 × 31.1 cm)
frame: 11 11/16 × 14 15/16 × 1 3/4 in. (29.7 × 37.9 × 4.4 cm)
frame: 11 11/16 × 14 15/16 × 1 3/4 in. (29.7 × 37.9 × 4.4 cm)
Classification(s)
- DRAWING
Credit LineMuseum purchase, Kathryn Hurd Fund
Terms
- slavery
- figures
- singing
Object numberM.2003.1.K
InscribedSigned on verso in pencil: (Slavery Reparations Act in the Manner of K. Walker's Negress Notes) KW 2003; Signed in ink on verso: Ballad of the Forseeable Future
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