White #1

Glenn Ligon, American, born 1960

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1995

Etching and aquatint on wove paper

4/35

Plate: 8 15/16 × 6 7/8 in. (22.7 × 17.5 cm)

Sheet: 19 5/8 × 14 1/2 in. (49.8 × 36.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Phyllis and Bertram Geller 1937 Memorial Fund

© Glenn Ligon

PR.996.6

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, in graphite, lower right: Glenn Ligon '95; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: 4/35; embossed, lower right: BURNET / EDITIONS

Course History

SART 15, Drawing I, Gerald Auten, Spring 2012

SOCY 7.2, Race and Ethnicity, Emily Walton, Spring 2014

SOCY 7.1, Race and Ethnicity, Emily Walton, Winter 2015

Gallery Talk: The Embodiment of Language, Winter 2020

AAAS 88.19, Contemporary African-American Artists, Michael Chaney, Summer 2021

GEOG 72.01/AAAS 67.50/WGSS 66.09, Black Consciousness Black Feminism, Abby Neely, Spring 2022

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 24, Say Word., Callie Helen Thompson, Class of 2005, Student programming Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 15-April 3, 2005.

A Space for Dialogue 74, Text as Image / Image as Text: Narratives of African American History and Identity, Emma Routhier, Class of 2012, Levinson Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 3-December 2, 2012.

Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery elevator vestibule, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 6, 2005.

Loew Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 13-July 6, 1998

Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 24-April 12, 1998.

The Embodiment of Language, First Floor Corridor, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-May 24, 2020.

The Expanding Grid, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 7-August 27, 2012.

Publication History

Callie Helen Thompson, A Space for Dialogue 24, Say Word., Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2005, ill. p. 4.

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.185, no.196.

Emma Routhier, A Space for Dialogue 74, Text as Image / Image as Text: Narratives of African American History and Identity, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2012, ill. p. 3.

Provenance

Betsy Senior Contemporary Prints, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1996.

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