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Kara Walker, Alabama Loyalists Greeting the Federal Gun-Boats, from the portfolio Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), 2005, offset lithograph and screenprint on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 2008.19.1.1, © 2005 Kara Walker
Walker’s scenes are set in the American South before and during the Civil War. They play off stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely, life on the plantation, where masters and mistresses and slave men, women, and children enact a subverted version of the past. Walker suggests a critical understanding of the past and proposes an examination of contemporary racial and gender stereotypes.
Multiplicity, 2011
- Title
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Alabama Loyalists Greeting the Federal Gun-Boats, from the portfolio Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
- Artist
- Printer
- Publisher
- Date
- 2005
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 39 x 53 in. (99.1 x 134.6 cm)
- Copyright
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© 2005 Kara Walker
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
- Mediums Description
- offset lithograph and screenprint on paper
- Classifications
- Highlights
- Keywords
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- Ethnic – African-American
- History – United States – Civil War
- Object Number
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2008.19.1.1
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