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Woman on a Pedestal Series: Black Woman #1 - Image 1

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Faith Ringgold

Woman on a Pedestal Series: Black Woman #1

1977

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Woman on a Pedestal Series: Black Woman #1

Faith Ringgold

Woman on a Pedestal Series: Black Woman #1

Faith Ringgold

Woman on a Pedestal Series: Black Woman #1

1977

Physical Qualities Fabric, synthetic fiber, aluminum foil, metal earrings, and plastic and glass beads, 17 1/2 × 6 1/4 × 7 1/2 in. (44.5 × 15.9 × 19.1 cm.)

Credit Line Lilian Sarah Greif Bequest Fund

Object Number 1995.72

The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1995

Inscribed: on bottom (blue ink), handwritten on fabric sewn to bottom; 'BLACK/WOMAN #1/1977/MIXED/19'h F. RINGGOLD'

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Faith Ringgold

born New York, NY 1930; died Englewood, NJ 2024

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