Untitled (I feel most colored...), from Four Etchings / Glenn Ligon

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Accession Number
1993/2.13.1
Title
Untitled (I feel most colored...), from Four Etchings
Artist
Glenn Ligon
Artist Nationality
American
Artist Life Dates
born 1960
Object Creation Date
1992
Object Creation Place
North and Central America (continent)
United States (nation)
Creation Place 2
United States (nation)
Credit Line
Museum Purchase
Style/Group/Movement
Conceptual art
Inscription
Signed and dated in pencil, l.r.: Glenn Lignon '92 Numbered in pencil, l.l.: 27/45 Printed inscription: I FEEL MOST COLORED WHEN I AM THROWN AGAINST A SHARP WHITE BACKGROUND... (from text by Zora Neale Hurston)
Dimensions
63.5 cm x 43.82 cm (25 in. x 17 1/4 in.)
Century
20th century
Primary Object Classification
Print
Primary Object Type
intaglio print
Secondary Object Classification
Print
Secondary Object Type
etching
Physical Description
Stencilled black capital letters on white background.
Subject Matter
One of a suite of four etchings incorporating text; this work quotes from Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston's 1928 essay "How It Feels to be Colored Me."
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Image Size
773 x 1089
File Size
128 KB
Record
1993/2.13.1
Link to this Item
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1993-sl-2.13.1/1993_2.13.1.jpg

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"Untitled (I feel most colored...), from Four Etchings; Glenn Ligon." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1993-sl-2.13.1/1993_2.13.1.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 29, 2024.
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