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Howardena Pindell

Space Frame, 1968

Description

Maker

  • Howardena Pindell, b. 1943, American

Title

Space Frame

Year

1968

Medium

Graphite on graph paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • pencil

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 44.5 x 55.9 cm (17 1/2 x 22 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed and dated lower right

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Georgianna Sayles Aldrich Fund

Object Number

2004.56

Projects & Publications

Publications

Howardena Pindell

What Remains to be Seen

Manual / Issue 9

Out of Line
Read Online

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Primacy of Paper

January 15 - June 20, 2010

Bodies of Evidence

July 1 - September 25, 2005

“As a child in the 1940s, Howardena and her family would drive from Philadelphia to her grandmother’s home in Hamilton, Ohio, near the border of Kentucky. Most motels would not accept blacks. Her father would bring a stove along so that they could cook their meals in the woods.
It was on one of these trips that Howardena had an early experience with segregation and racism. It involved an outing to a local food stand in the southern Ohio- northern Kentucky area. Howardena asked her father why the large glass root beer mugs they were given had prominent red circles painted at the bottom. Her father then explained to her that in restaurants and food stands people of color were given separate utensils and that the red circles were used to distinguish ‘their’ mugs from the others. This left an indelible mark on Howardena, as years later, these red marks and dots appear in many of her current works.”

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