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Forget It

Adrian Piper, Brody's Gallery, and others

Forget It

1991

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Forget It

Adrian Piper, Brody's Gallery, and others

Forget It

Forget It

1991

Physical Qualities Offset lithograph, Sheet: 270 x 535 mm. (10 5/8 x 21 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Monroe Denton
Object Number 1999.657
Monroe Denton Collection
Jennie Fleming, BMA, 'Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art by African-Americans,' January 31, 2001-April 29, 2001.

Jessica Bell Brown and Leila Grothe, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "How Do We Know the World?," November 15, 2021 - June 1, 2022.
Related to installation at Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, 'Adrian Piper: 'What It's Like, What It Is #2,'' June 19-September 22, 1991.

Inscribed: RECTO: In matrix, LL: 'Forget' & LR: 'it'. VERSO: BL (graphite, partially erased): '5797 $20' & (stamped in red ink): 'ADRIAN PIPER / forget it, 1991 c / photo credits: / HOWARD BEACH, John Sotomayor/NEW YORK TIMES / SOMALIAN MOTHER AND CHILD, Peter Turnley/BLACK STAR / printer: Campbell Photo and Printing Service, Inc. / publisher: Brody's Gallery, Washington DC'.

Markings: none - none

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