Bert Samples
Her Daughters Mournfully in Gesture Dance in the Elysian Tradition

Her Daughters Mournfully in Gesture Dance in the Elysian Tradition

© Bert Samples

Her Daughters Mournfully in Gesture Dance in the Elysian Tradition
Her Daughters Mournfully in Gesture Dance in the Elysian Tradition
ArtistAmerican, born 1955
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Her Daughters Mournfully in Gesture Dance in the Elysian Tradition
Date1992
PlaceHouston, Texas, United States
MediumAcrylic on paper
DimensionsSheet: 22 1/8 × 29 7/8 in. (56.1 × 75.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Wilder Foundation
Object number93.256
Not on view

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Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"African-American Art in the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 22, 2004 - May 9, 2004.

"Houston Collects: African American Art," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Upper Brown Pavilion, July 31-October 26, 2008.

Fresh Vision/New Voices, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas (? dates 1999)

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