Artist
Alison Saar (American, born 1956)American, born 1956
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Chitterlings and Wings
Date1989
PlaceUnited States
MediumPressed ceiling tin, nails, and wood
DimensionsOverall: dimensions variable
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Max and Isabell Smith Herzstein, Jeanne and Michael Klein, the Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff Family Foundation, and an anonymous lady in honor of Alison de Lima Greene
Object number95.195.A-.G
Not on view
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Department
Modern and Contemporary ArtObject Type
Exhibition History"Secrets, Dialogues, Revelations: The Art of Betye and Alison Saar," The Wright Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Smith College Museum of Art; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; The Oakland Museum; Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, 1990-1991.
"Modernism in a Century of Change III, From Object to Icon: The Art of Assemblage," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 21–August 30, 1998.
"The Passionate Adventure of the Real: Collage, Assemblage, and the Object in 20th Century Art," The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, October 18, 2003–February 8, 2004.
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1913–1917
Wood, paint, feathers, horns, leather, buffalo fur, rawhide, cotton cloth, satin ribbon, tin, nails, and string
44.438
Charles LeDray
2009
Laundry cart contents: purple satin bag; clear, white, and black hangers made from alumilite clear cast resin and galvanized steel wire; six pairs of trousers, one shirt, and two neckties made from various fabrics. Laundry bag with nylon cord, alumilite toggles, fabric, and thread, stuffed with fabric.
Palette: wood, nails, glue, wood stain, dirt.
Cart: wood frame with woven aluminum strips, 1/8-inch ungalvanized steel rod, clear acrylic spray coating, canvas, thread, vinyl, aluminum rivets, dirt, and newspaper ink.
Broom: wood handle and housing with bristles.
Floor: linoleum backed with canvas.
2010.221
1910–1925
Wood, paint, wool and cotton cloth, leather, yarn, sinew, nails, wire, and string
44.427
1910–1925
Wood, paint, cow suede, sheepskin, wool cloth and yarn, unspun wool, cotton cloth, paper, yucca strips, nails, chicken feathers, sparrow feathers, horsehair, and string
44.459
1910–1925
Wood, paint, wool cloth, rawhide, feathers, twigs, nails, cornhusk (?), and string
44.484
1940–1960
Wood, cowry shells, cotton cloth, sacrificial matter, plastic beads, nails, and traces of indigo
97.811.A,.B