Cane Artist: Martin Puryear (American, born 1941, B.F.A. 1971, M.F.A. 1971, D.F.A. (Hon.) 1994)
Author: Jean Toomer (American, 1894–1967)

2000

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

Medium

Deluxe book, with text by Toomer and woodcut illustrations by Puryear on handmade Kitakata paper

Dimensions

book: 29.8 × 35.9 cm (11 3/4 × 14 1/8 in.)
exterior case: 34.8 × 38.3 cm (13 11/16 × 15 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with a gift from Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, B.A. 1956

Accession Number

2001.5.1

Geography

Made in United States

Culture

American

Period

20th century

Classification

Books

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Purchased from publisher (Arion Press, San Francisco)
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), 48, ill.

Object copyright
Copyright Martin Puryear/Matthew Marks Gallery
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

artists' books

Subject

African American artists race (concept) words

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