Kara Walker

Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp

2005

A person wades through a swamp holding hanging moss while three people sit in a nearby canoe.
A person wades through a swamp holding hanging moss while three people sit in a nearby canoe.

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Date
2005

Classification
Prints

Medium
Photolithograph and screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet: 39 × 53 in. (99.1 × 134.6 cm) Image: 26 1/2 × 34 1/2 in. (67.3 × 87.6 cm)

Accession number
2005.91.12

Edition
2/35

Publication
Printed and published by LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies

Credit line
Purchase with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© 2005 Kara Walker

API
artworks/25929

Part of a series:
Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)
15 works

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Soldiers and cavalry watch a cannon firing in a mountain valley while black silhouettes fall above.
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A giant silhouette staggers while a smaller figure swings an axe to strike it.
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Black silhouette of a girl's profile revealing a crowded 19th-century village scene inside.
A large dark mound reveals silhouetted figures resting inside against a distant landscape.

Kara Walker
32 works in the collection, 12 exhibitions

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