Challenge--America
Object Details
- Artist
- Lois Mailou Jones, American, b. Boston, Massachusetts, 1905–1998
- Provenance
- The artist, Washington, DC, to 22 November 1977
- Museum Purchase, 1977
- Exhibition History
- MUSEE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUEBEC. "America. Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection," 9 June-5 September 2022, color ill. p. 134; color det. p. 130.
- Published References
- VANDIVER, REBECCA. Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020), fig. 70 (color), p. 143.
- AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 195, p. 218.
- Credit Line
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Museum purchase, 1977
- 1964
- Accession Number
- 77.84
- Type
- Collage
- Medium
- Collage of printed papers and paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 39 1/8 x 30 1/8 in. (99.2 x 76.6 cm)
- See more items in
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection
- School
- African-American Figuration/Washington Regional
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Record ID
- hmsg_77.84
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/py2d5276905-1ec4-46c4-b97e-694fd7a703e6
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