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Untitled

Glenn Ligon, Burnet Editions, and others

Untitled

1991

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Untitled

1991

Physical Qualities Softground etching, aquatint, spit bite etching, and liftground etching, Sheet: 641 x 445 mm. (25 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.) Plate: 596 x 402 mm. (23 7/16 x 15 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Print & Drawing Society Fund, with proceeds derived from the 1993 Contemporary Print Fair
Object Number 1993.56
From a portfolio of four etchings (BMA has only two). Text taken from 'How It Feels to be Colored Me,' a 1928 essay by Zora Neale Hurston
Jay Fisher, BMA, "The Print and Drawing Society 25th Anniversary Exhibition," 22 September - 19 December, 1993.

Jan Howard, BMA, "BMA Collects: Contemporary Prints in Series," 22 January - 23 March, 1997.

BMA, "Glenn Ligon: Uncommon Language," April 11, 2018 - August 19, 2018.
Print Collector's Newsletter, Vol. XXIV, No. 1, March-April 1993, 'Prints & Photographs Published,' page 21.

Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "24/45"; lower right in graphite: "Glenn Ligon '92"

Markings: BFK RIVES

Artist

Glenn Ligon

1959–2000

born New York, NY 1960
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