Procession for the Negro Folk (hero)
Details
Kara Walker (B. 1969)
Procession for the Negro Folk (hero)
signed, titled and dated 'Procession for the Negro Folk (hero) K Walker 2007' (on the reverse)
acrylic, paper collage and gesso on panel
60 x 84 in. (152.4 x 213.3 cm.)
Executed in 2007.
Procession for the Negro Folk (hero)
signed, titled and dated 'Procession for the Negro Folk (hero) K Walker 2007' (on the reverse)
acrylic, paper collage and gesso on panel
60 x 84 in. (152.4 x 213.3 cm.)
Executed in 2007.
Provenance
Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands- Records, “Miscellaneous Papers” National Archives M809 Roll 23, Search for ideas supporting the Black Man as a work of Modern Art / Contemporary Painting; a death without end, and an appreciation of the Creative Spirit of Lynch Mobs-New work, Kara Walker, October-November 2007, pp. 53 and 113 (illustrated).
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