Kara Walker
Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp

Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp

© Kara Walker

Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp
Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp
ArtistAmerican, born 1969
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp
  • from the series Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
Date2005
MediumLithograph and screenprint
DimensionsImage: 26 × 34 1/2 in. (66 × 87.6 cm)
Sheet: 39 × 53 in. (99.1 × 134.6 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, and Puffer-Sweiven, L.P.
Object number2006.646.12
Not on view

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Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"After the Deluge," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer, 2006.
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: "COTTON HOARDS IN SOUTHERN SWAMP."

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

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