Alison Saar
Chitterlings and Wings

Chitterlings and Wings

© Alison Saar

Chitterlings and Wings
Chitterlings and Wings
ArtistAmerican, 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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Object Type
Provenance[Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles]; purchased by MFAH, 1995.
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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