Betye Saar

Mother and Children in Blue

1998

African American mother sits holding two young children in a faded, blue-tinted vintage portrait.
African American mother sits holding two young children in a faded, blue-tinted vintage portrait.
Recto

Not on view

Date
1998

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Watercolor and mixed media collage on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 8 5/8 × 6 1/2 in. (21.9 × 16.5 cm)

Accession number
2000.46

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Drawing Committee

Rights and reproductions
Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California

API
artworks/12580



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