Black Venus, c. 1957

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Medium

linocut

Dimensions

image: 35.9 × 28.2 cm (14 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.)

sheet: 47.7 × 36.4 cm (18 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation

Accession Number

2008.115.29

Artists / Makers

Margaret Burroughs (artist) American, 1915 - 2010

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Inscription

In scripted pencil: lower left, "Black Venus" (within quotes); lower center, 10/50; lower right, Margaret Burroughs; within the plate: lower right, M.B.

Provenance

Dave H. and Reba W. Williams, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2008

Associated Names

Williams, Dave H. and Reba W.

Exhibition History

2021: Afro-Atlantic Histories, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, 2021-2024 (shown only in Washington and Los Angeles).