Black in America

Contemporary Art

2016

Samuel Levi Jones
American, born 1978

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Samuel Levi Jones
Title: Black in America
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.: 2016
Medium: Encyclopedia, law books, and Afro-American reference books on canvas
Dimensions: 94 × 124.5 cm (37 1/8 × 49 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection
Reference Number: 2022.1420
Copyright: © 2016 Samuel Levi Jones

Courtney J. Martin, ed., Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art (New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co., 2019), 346 (color ill.).

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The artist; sold to Pamela Joyner and Fred Giuffrida, San Francisco, then Reno, NV, 2016; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 8, 2022.

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