Kara Walker

Sketch for a Fabulous Tale

2011

Not on view

Date
2011

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 14 × 18 in. (35.6 × 45.7 cm) Image: 14 × 18 in. (35.6 × 45.7 cm)

Accession number
2015.324.5

Edition
1/30 | 6 APs

Publication
Printed by Rob Swainston; published by Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

Credit line
Gift of Donald Moffett

Rights and reproductions
© Kara Walker

API
artworks/47994

Part of a series:
SkowheganBOX no. 1
5 works

A tall person in a pink-striped suit leans to kiss a smaller person in yellow.
Bright yellow abstract portrait of a person with a distorted face and red scribble.
A young girl reaches toward a limp, rope-tied figure hanging from a tree branch while heads dangle below.
A pencil portrait of a woman with colored lines radiating from her eyes across the page.
Brooklyn news clipping reporting a man arrested for choking his mother and setting her hair on fire.


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