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Image

Grayscale print of a scene on a stage in which a dark-skinned figure bites at the neck of a light-skinned figure. The background and audience members are hazily rendered.

Kara Walker

Vanishing Act,

Description

Maker

  • Landfall Press, Inc.
  • Kara Walker, (RISD MFA 1994, Printmaking)

Title

Vanishing Act

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • Etching and aquatint on chine-collé

Techniques

  • Etching and aquatint on chine-collé

Dimensions

Image: 30 x 22.8 cm (11 13/16 x 9 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed, dates and numbered in graphite, lower margin; published stamp on verso in ink.
Stamp reads: Copyright 1997
Landfall Press Inc
329 W. 18th Street
Suite 601
Chicago, IL 60616

Under stamp in graphite: KW-96-05-e

Cross in graphite on verso at top; graphite line at bottom, verso

Identification

Edition

7/35

Type

  • Prints

Credit

Paula and Leonard Granoff Fund

Object Number

2018.18

About

Vanishing Act

7/35

Signed, dates and numbered in graphite, lower margin; published stamp on verso in ink.
Stamp reads: Copyright 1997
Landfall Press Inc
329 W. 18th Street
Suite 601
Chicago, IL 60616

Under stamp in graphite: KW-96-05-e

Cross in graphite on verso at top; graphite line at bottom, verso

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Visions and Revisions

February 15 - August 4, 2019

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Vanishing Act with the accession number of 2018.18. To request new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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