print
- Museum number
- 2014,7001.1
- Title
- Object: Restraint
- Description
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Silhouette profile facing right of a black slave wearing a bridle with a bell attached. 2009
Etching with sugar aquatint on wove paper
- Production date
- 2009
- Dimensions
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Height: 610 millimetres (plate)
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Height: 785 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 483 millimetres
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Width: 605 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- This is one of three printer's proofs outside the edition of 35. It was printed by Greg Burnet at Burnet Editions, New York and published by Ilene Kurtz-Kretzschmar for the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
Text from Coppel, Daunt and Tallman, 'The American Dream: pop to the present', London: Thames and Hudson in association with the British Museum, 2017, cat. no. 181:
Much of Walker’s work explores the experience of black slaves in the Southern states of pre-Civil War America. The figure depicted in this print wears a bridle of a type that female slaves in particular were forced to wear as punishment, preventing them from speaking, lying down or running away. The brutal nature of the subject is at odds with the calm beauty of the silhouette, which ironically recalls a style of profile portraiture that was popular in Europe and America during the slavery era. The print was produced for the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, which held a major exhibition of Walker’s work in 2008, and was printed in New York by Burnet Editions.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2017 9 Mar-18 Jun, London, BM, G30, The American Dream
2018 2 Jun-2 Sept, Paris, Fondation Custodia, The American Dream: pop to the present
2020-21 8 Oct-31 Jan, Madrid, La Caixa Forum, The American Dream: pop to the present
2021 2 Mar-13 Jun, Barcelona, La Caixa Forum, The American Dream: pop to the present
2021 13 Jul-14 Nov, Zaragoza, La Caixa Forum, The American Dream: pop to the present
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2014,7001.1
