Colored / Betye Saar
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2003/1.406
- Title
- Colored
- Artist
- Betye Saar
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1926
- Medium and Support
- mixed media assemblage with hand mirror
- Object Creation Date
- 2002
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase made possible by Dr. James and Vivian Curtis and the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund
- Dimensions
- 36.8 cm x 76.2 cm x 3.8 cm (14 1/2 in. x 30 in. x 1 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 21st century
- Primary Object Classification
- Mixed Media
- Primary Object Type
- assemblage
- Physical Description
- Assemblage of found objects: salvaged wood frame, four portrait photographs of African American females, nine thread samples, and one hand mirror hanging on a decorative brass hook to the viewer's right of the frame.
- Subject Matter
- From Betye Saar's series "Colored -- Consider the Rainbow," begun in 2001 in which she tackled the issue of racism through works focusing on skin tone and forms of discrimination and hierarchies of race within the African American community. This work references the color spectrum through actual photographs as well as pigmented thread spools, a proverb about color disctinctions, and a hand mirror inviting viewers to reflect on their own skin color.
- Primary Keywords
- african american
- assemblage (sculpture technique)
- assemblages (sculpture)
- black-and-white photographs
- found objects
- photographs
- portrait photography
- vintage prints
- women
- Secondary Keywords
- color
- constructions (sculpture)
- descriptors
- found object sculpture
- image-making processes and techniques
- modern american styles and periods
- modern north american styles and movements
- object-making processes and techniques
- objects we use
- people
- people (agents)
- people and culture
- people by gender
- photographic prints
- photographs by form
- photography and photographic processes and techniques
- positives
- processes and techniques
- processes and techniques by specific type
- sculpture
- sculpture by material
- sculpture by technique
- sculpture techniques
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- the americas
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2622 x 1936
- File Size
- 675 KB
- Record
- 2003/1.406
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2003-sl-1.406/2003_1.406.jpg
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"Colored; Betye Saar." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2003-sl-1.406/2003_1.406.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2024.