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Kara Walker — VisualArtsDB

Kara Walker

Stockton, United States · b. 1969

Painting & Sculpture Drawings & Prints 21st Century Media and Performance 20th Century

Kara Walker American, born 1969

Timeline

Born 1969

1990s

Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b'tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart

Untitled

Untitled

Untitled

+6

2000s

Boo-Hoo (for Parkett no. 59)

Plate (page 18) from Five Poems

Plate (page 22) from Five Poems

Fable of Belonging

Fable of Belonging

+10

2010s

Porgy & Bess

Porgy taken to jail (plate, facing page 93) from Porgy & Bess

The dance (plate, facing page 61) from Porgy & Bess

Crown kills Robbins (plate, facing page 29) from Porgy & Bess

+1

Works

29 artworks

Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b'tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart

, 1994

Untitled

, 1995

Untitled

, 1996

Untitled

, 1996

Untitled

, 1996

Untitled

, 1996

L'l Patch of Woods

, 1997

Freedom, a fable: a curious interpretation of the wit of a Negress in troubled times, with illustrations

Freedom, a fable: a curious interpretation of the wit of a Negress in troubled times, with illustrations

, 1997

Untitled (The Last Taste)

Untitled (The Last Taste)

, 1997

Vanishing Act

, 1997

Boo-Hoo (for Parkett no. 59)

, 2000

Plate (page 18) from Five Poems

, 2002

Plate (page 22) from Five Poems

, 2002

Fable of Belonging

Fable of Belonging

, 2003

Untitled

, 2003

The Pullman Porter

, 2003

Shadow puppet from Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions

, 2004

Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

, 2005

An Army Train from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

, 2005

Alabama Loyalists Greeting the Federal Gun-Boats from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

, 2005

Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

, 2005

Signal Station, Summit of Maryland Heights from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

, 2005

8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker

, 2005

Occupation of Alexandria from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

, 2005

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