Vanishing Act

Prints and Drawings

1997

Kara Walker (American, born 1969)
printed by Landfall Press (American, founded 1970)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Kara Walker
Title: Vanishing Act
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1997
Medium: Etching, aquatint, and spitbite in black on ivory China paper laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions: Plate: 30 × 22.6 cm (11 13/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 46.2 × 37.5 cm (18 1/4 × 14 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Kaye and Howard Haas
Reference Number: 1998.89

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