Kara Walker
Scene of McPherson's Death

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Artist Kara WalkerAmerican, born 1969

Publisher Sikkema Jenkins & Co.New York

CultureAmerican

Titles

Scene of McPherson's Death
from the series Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

Date2005

MediumLithograph and screenprint

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, and Puffer-Sweiven, L.P.

Object number2006.646.13

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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: "SCENE OF McPHERSON'S DEATH. "

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

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