Alison Saar
Strange Fruit
1994
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Alison Saar
Strange Fruit
1994
Physical Qualities
Tin alloy, wood, dirt, found objects, rope, and paint, 76 x 21 x 14 in. (193.1 x 53.4 x 35.6 cm.)
Credit Line
Contemporary Art Endowment Fund
Object Number
1995.122
Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley and Alison Saar
At Freedom's Door: Challenging Slavery in Maryland
Contemporary Wing Reinstallation
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body
A Site of Struggle: American Art Against Anti-Black Violence
Billie Holiday
Pepe Karmel, "Behind Folk Forms, Classical Modes," The New York Times, Oct. 27, 1995.
Darnell Burfoot, "Alison Saar and Terry Winters," "Newsletter of the Print & Drawing Socity of The Baltimore Musuem of Art," Vol. XVI, No. 2, April 1999, ill.
Jessica Dallow and Barbara C. Matilsky, "Family Legacies: The Art of Betye Lezley and Allison Saar," Seattle: University of Washington Press: 2006, ill.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.
Dees, Janet (editor). A Site of Struggle: American Art Against Anti-Black Violence. Evanstan, IL: Mary and LeighBlock Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 2022. ill. p. 117.
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