Kara Walker

Mistress Demanded Swift and Dramatic Empathetic Reaction Which We Obliged Her

2000

An overhead projector casts a blue silhouette scene of three figures struggling in a cave.
An overhead projector casts a blue silhouette scene of three figures struggling in a cave.

Kara Walker, Mistress Demanded Swift and Dramatic Empathetic Reaction Which We Obliged Her, 2000. Cut paper and projection on wall, overall: 144 × 204 × 300 in. (365.8 × 518.2 × 762 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee 2001.228. © 2000 Kara Walker

Installation

Not on view

Date
2000

Classification
Installations

Medium
Cut paper and projection on wall

Dimensions
Overall: 144 × 204 × 300 in. (365.8 × 518.2 × 762 cm)

Accession number
2001.228

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee

Rights and reproductions
© 2000 Kara Walker

API
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