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Nancy Elizabeth Prophet

Negro Head,

Maker

  • Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, (RISD 1918)

Title

Negro Head

Medium

wood

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • maple wood

Techniques

  • maple wood

Dimensions

52.1 x 27.9 x 35.6 cm (20 1/2 x 11 x 14 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed on side of base:N Elizabeth Prophet

Type

  • Sculpture

Credit

Gift of Miss Eleanor B. Green

Object Number

35.780

Negro Head

Nancy Elizabeth Prophet

I Will Not Bend an Inch

Teaching Notes/ Imagining the Americas

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Selected Works

Signed on side of base:N Elizabeth Prophet

Publications

Eighty Years Later, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet at Spelman

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Nancy Elizabeth Prophet

I Will Not Bend an Inch

Teaching Notes/ Imagining the Americas

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Selected Works

Exhibition History

Nancy Elizabeth Prophet

February 17 - August 4, 2024

Modernism in the Americas

June 20 - August 31, 2003

"The Center Cannot Hold"

March 1 - July 1, 1999

One Voice, Many Visions

February 20 - June 14, 1998

African-American Art from the Permanent Collection

November 18, 1994 - February 19, 1995

Paula and Leonard Granoff Galleries

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