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Burning African Village Play Set with Big House and Lynching

Kara Walker

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Accession Date:

05/23/14

Accession Number:

B-WALK-2014.009

2006

painted laser cut steel

By Kara Walker in the Collection

Kara Walker, 1996

From set 5 of the series Negress Notes

Kara Walker, 1998

Treesum

Kara Walker, 2009

Paternity Test

Kara Walker, 2010

Pastorale

Kara Walker, 2012

The Palmetto Libretto (part two of a multi part work. This one's a sketch for an American comic opera with shipwreck and cargo)

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Kara Walker, 1998

Danse de la Nubienne Nouveaux

Kara Walker, 2006

Burning African Village Play Set with Big House and Lynching

On View

Kara Walker, 1996

African't

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Kara Walker, 2004

Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions

Kara Walker, 2019

The White Power 'Gin/Machine to Harvest the Nativist Instinct for Beneficial Uses to Border Crossers Everywhere

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