Fairy Godmother Offers Some Unrequested Advice

Prints and Drawings

1998

Kara Walker
American, born 1969

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Kara Walker
Title: Fairy Godmother Offers Some Unrequested Advice
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.: 1998
Medium: Watercolor and coffee, with brush and gouache, on off-white wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed center left edge, in pen and black ink: "Fairy Godmother Offers Some Unrequested Advice"
Dimensions: 133 × 229 cm (52 3/8 × 90 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Susan and Lew Manilow in honor of James Rondeau
Reference Number: 2016.152

Jerry Cullum, “Starting Out from Atlanta: Three Artists Imagine History,” The International Review of African American Art 18.3 (2002), pp. 44 (ill.).

New York, Wooster Gardens, “Kara Walker,” Oct. 22 - Nov. 28, 1998.
Dallas, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, “Kara Walker,” Jan. - Feb. 1999.
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, “Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection,” Mar. 18 – June 25, 2000, pp. 20-21 (ill.).

Sold by Wooster Gardens, New York, to Susan and Lew Manilow, Chicago, c. 1998; given to the Art Institute, 2016.

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