Kara Walker
Pack-Mules in the Mountains

Pack-Mules in the Mountains

© Kara Walker

Pack-Mules in the Mountains
Pack-Mules in the Mountains
ArtistAmerican, born 1969
PublisherNew York
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Pack-Mules in the Mountains
  • from the series Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
Date2005
MediumLithograph and screenprint on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 53 × 39 in. (134.6 × 99.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Michael A. Caddell and Cynthia Chapman, Bettie Cartwright and Colin Kennedy, the Marjorie G. and Evan C. Horning Print Fund, Melissa and Albert Joseph Grobmyer IV, Puffer-Sweiven, L.P., and the Director's Accessions Endowment
Object number2006.646.7
Not on view

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Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"After the Deluge," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer, 2006.

"Statements: African American Art from the Museum's Collection," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 24–May 23, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil, recto lower right: " 11/35 K W 2005 "
Initialed in pencil, recto lower right: edition " K W " dated
Printed lower center below the image: "PACK-MULES IN THE MOUNTAINS."

Yellow circular stamp(printer's?) on verso lower right - image or lettering is illegible.

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