Alison Saar
Fanning the Fire II

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Artist Alison Saar American, born 1956

CultureAmerican

Titles

Fanning the Fire II

Date1989

PlaceUnited States

MediumLead and painted tin nailed over wooden armature

Dimensions97 × 30 × 22 in. (246.4 × 76.2 × 55.9 cm)

Credit LineGift of Jeanne and Michael Klein in honor of the African American Art Advisory Association

Object number97.210.A,.B

Not on view

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Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Object Type

SCULPTURE

ProvenanceThe artist; Jeanne and Michael Klein, Houston; given to MFAH, 1997.
Exhibition History"Modernism in a Century of Change III, From Object to Icon: The Art of Assemblage," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 21–August 30, 1998.

"African-American Advisory Association (Five-A)," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 2–April 7, 2003.

"The Passionate Adventure of the Real: Collage, Assemblage, and the Object in 20th Century Art," Museum of Fine Arts Houston, October 18, 2003–February 8, 2004.

"Afro-Atlantic Histories," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 24, 2021–January 17, 2022; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 11, 2022–September 10, 2023; Dallas Museum of Art, October 22, 2023–February 11, 2024. (OL.1505)

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