Renée Cox

Queen Nanny of the Maroons
2004

A black and white photograph of a woman sitting on a large rock in the middle of a river. She is wearing a long skirt and a blouse, with her hair tied back. The background features lush tropical vegetation and mountainous terrain under a cloudy sky.
A black and white photograph of a woman sitting on a large rock in the middle of a river. She is wearing a long skirt and a blouse, with her hair tied back. The background features lush tropical vegetation and mountainous terrain under a cloudy sky.

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Date
2004

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Inkjet print

Dimensions
Sheet: 20 1/16 × 20in. (51 × 50.8 cm) Image: 18 1/2 × 18 1/2in. (47 × 47 cm) Frame: 24 15/16 × 24 15/16 × 1 3/8in. (63.3 × 63.3 × 3.5 cm)

Accession number
2006.84

Series
Queen Nanny of The Maroons

Edition
Ed. 3

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo and the Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation in loving memory of Collin Hugh Harris

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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