Kara Walker

Negress Note (Aunt Dicey)

1996

An elderly woman in a bonnet sits on a bench dipping snuff, titled "Aunt Dicey Dipped Snuff."
An elderly woman in a bonnet sits on a bench dipping snuff, titled "Aunt Dicey Dipped Snuff."

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Date
1996

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Watercolor on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 9 × 6 in. (22.9 × 15.2 cm)

Accession number
2002.77

Credit line
Gift of Richard Gerrig and Timothy Peterson

Rights and reproductions
© 1996 Kara Walker

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Kara Walker
32 works in the collection, 12 exhibitions

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