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Vanishing Act by Kara Walker — VisualArtsDB
Vanishing Act
Kara Walker
1997
Medium
Etching, aquatint, and spitbite in black on ivory China paper laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)
Dimensions
Plate: 30 × 22.6 cm (11 13/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Sheet: 46.2 × 37.5 cm (18 1/4 × 14 13/16 in.)
Genre
etching
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printing
aquatint
print
prints and drawing
etching
paper (fiber product)
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