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Object Details

Artist

Alison Saar, American, b. Los Angeles, California, 1956

Provenance

Merry Norris, Los Angeles, to 21 December 1993
Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund and gift of Merry Norris, 1993

Exhibition History

HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. "The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992-1996," 4 June-7 September 1997, no. 138, color ill. p. 87.
MAIER MUSEUM OF ART, Randolph Macon Women's College, Virginia. "90th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art," 24 February-22 April 2001.

Published References

LAWRENCE, SIDNEY. "American Art," (Washington DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Spring 1997), vol. 11, no. 1, ill. p. 8.
GILBERT, ANDRE, et al. America. Entre Rêves et Réalités (Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, 2022), color ill. p. 86.

Credit Line

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund and gift of Merry Norris, 1993

Date

1985

Accession Number

93.26

Type

Sculpture

Medium

Wood, metal, paint, and found objects

Dimensions

21 × 26 × 14 in. (53.3 × 66 × 35.6 cm)

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection

School

African-American Contemporary

Data Source

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py22c8ffb17-348d-4862-ae11-6780010c1806

Record ID

hmsg_93.26

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