Kara Walker
Pack-Mules in the Mountains

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Artist Kara WalkerAmerican, born 1969

Publisher Sikkema Jenkins & Co.New 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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Prints and Drawings

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PRINTS

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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