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Challenge--America

Hirshhorn

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Object Details

Artist

Lois Mailou Jones, American, b. Boston, Massachusetts, 1905–1998

Provenance

The artist, Washington, DC, to 22 November 1977
Museum Purchase, 1977

Exhibition History

MUSEE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUEBEC. "America. Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection," 9 June-5 September 2022, color ill. p. 134; color det. p. 130.

Published References

FOX, HOWARD N. Collages: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington DC: Smithsonian Insitution, 1981), fig. 15, p. 34.
VANDIVER, REBECCA. Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020), fig. 70 (color), p. 143.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 195, p. 218.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Museum purchase, 1977

Date

1964

Accession Number

77.84

Type

Collage

Medium

Collage of printed papers and paint on canvas

Dimensions

39 1/8 x 30 1/8 in. (99.2 x 76.6 cm)

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection

School

African-American Figuration/Washington Regional

Data Source

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py2d5276905-1ec4-46c4-b97e-694fd7a703e6

Record ID

hmsg_77.84

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