Sentinel I Yale University Art Gallery

2018

On view, 3rd floor, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design

Medium: Red soil, pulp, ash, wood glue, wood, quartz, stone, gourd, jewelry, pine cone, and shells
Dimensions: 87 1/4 × 19 3/4 × 22 in. (221.6 × 50.2 × 55.9 cm)
Credit Line: Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund
Accession Number: 2019.119.1
Geography: Made in Brooklyn, New York, United States
Culture: Kenyan American
Period: 21st century
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

This work was created for, and first exhibited at, the Whitney Biennial (May 17th – October 27th 2019). Purchased directly from dealer Barbara Gladstone, Gladstone Gallery, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

American Art: Selections from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2023), 288–89, no. 146, ill.

Lisa Hodermarsky et al., On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2021), 266–67, 302, no. 62, fig. 1

"Selected Acquisitions," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2020–21), 172–73, ill.

Object copyright

In Copyright

Additional information

Subject

Women artists

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