Cane Artist: Martin Puryear (American, born 1941, B.F.A. 1971, M.F.A. 1971, D.F.A. (Hon.) 1994)

2000

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Medium

Book: woodcuts by Puryear, text by Jean Toomer

Dimensions

Book: 29.8 × 35.6 cm (11 3/4 × 14 in.)

Credit Line

Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund

Accession Number

2001.39.1

Geography

Made in United States

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Books

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Bibliography
  • Pamela Franks and Robert E. Steele, Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2010), 49, ill.
Object copyright
Copyright Martin Puryear/Matthew Marks Gallery
In Copyright
Additional information

Subject

African American artists

Edition

253/400. Copyright 2000 by Arion Press, San Francisco

Signed

Signed on colophon in graphite: Martin Puryear

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