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Kara Walker, b.1969

Freedom, A Fable by Kara Elizabeth Walker – A Curios Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times With Illustration1997

Freedom, A Fable by Kara Elizabeth Walker – A Curios Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times With Illustration is a 1997 work by Kara Walker. It is part of the IMMA Permanent Collection.

MediumHardbound artists book, pop up design by David Eisen
Dimensions Unframed, 23.8 x 21 cm
Credit LineIMMA Collection: Comissioned by The Peter Norton Family The Novak/O'Doherty Collection at IMMA, 2008
EditionEdition of 4,000
Item NumberIMMA.2216
Copyright For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].
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Kara Walker, Freedom, A Fable by Kara Elizabeth Walker – A Curios Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times With Illustration, 1997, Hardbound artists book, pop up design by David Eisen, Unframed, 23.8 x 21 cm, Collection Irish Museum of Modern Art, Comissioned by The Peter Norton Family The Novak/O'Doherty Collection at IMMA, 2008

For copyright information, please contact the IMMA Collections team: [email protected].

  • About the Artist

    • About the Artist

    Kara Walker b.1969

    African-American artist Kara Walker studied painting and printmaking at the Atlanta College of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design. Since the 1990s, Walker has used black cut paper silhouettes to explore challenging issues of race, gender, and sexuality. Walker has been exhibited extensively worldwide. She represented the United States at the 2002 Bienal de São Paulo and has had solo exhibitions at SFMOMA; Tate Liverpool; MoMA, New York, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

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