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

Title

Vanishing Act

Materials/Techniques

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

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

Use

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