A painted woven cloth with colorful checkerboard squares and frayed edges hanging on a wall.

Alan Shields

Singer for a Slave

1979

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Classification
Drawings

Medium
Watercolor on string-grid on paper

Dimensions
Sheet (irregular): 20 3/4 × 21 1/2 in. (52.7 × 54.6 cm)

Accession number
80.3a-b

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

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