Artist
Glenn LigonAmerican, born 1960
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Untitled (How It Feels to Be Colored Me)
Date1991
MediumOil stick and gesso on wood panel
DimensionsPanel: 80 × 30 × 1 1/4 in. (203.2 × 76.2 × 3.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2019.185
Not on view
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Department
Modern and Contemporary ArtObject Type
Exhibition History"Glenn Ligon/MATRIX 120," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, August 30–November 15, 1992.
"Statements: African American Art from the Museum's Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 24–September 25, 2016.
"Witness," Nancy and Rich Kinder Building Inaugural Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 15, 2020–November 15, 2022.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Verso: Inscribed in blue ink, center: GLENN LIGON / UNTITLED 1991
Verso: Signed in blue ink, center: GLENN LIGON / UNTITLED 1991
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