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Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

From July 1, 2020 to September 27, 2020

Location: Spotlight Gallery (Floor 1M)

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On loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

For over two decades, African American artist Kara Walker (born 1969) has been making work that weaves together imagery from the antebellum South, the brutality of slavery, and racist stereotypes. Best known for her use of the cut-paper silhouette, she transforms the genteel eighteenth-century portrait medium into stark, haunting tableaux.
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