Riddle of Reality
Betye Saar, American, born 1926
1976
Assemblage with wood, metal, and found objects
Overall: 10 1/2 × 7 1/4 × 4 1/4 in. (26.7 × 18.4 × 10.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Mrs. Harvey P. Hood W'18 Fund
2023.30
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Mixed Media
Sculpture
On view
Course History
Studio Art 21.01, Studio Art 73.01, Sculpture II, Sculpture III, Matt Siegle, Winter 2024
African and African American Studies 7.01, Picturing African American History, Michael Chaney, Spring 2024
Exhibition History
Betye Saar: Uneasy Dancer. Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy, 15 September 2016 - 8 January 2017.
Immersive Worlds: Real and Imagined, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 13-December 15, 2024.
The S-Word: The State of 'Spirituality' in Contemporary Art: A Group Exhibition fo Work Exhibited in Southern California by Contemporary Artists from 1979-80 to the Present. Judson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 7 October 2006 - 5 January 2007.
Publication History
Mainetti, Mario, ed. Betye Saar: Uneasy Dancer. Milan: Fondazione Prada, 2016, no. 118.
Steen, Ronald E. The S-Word: The State of 'Spirituality' in Contemporary Art: A Group Exhibition of Work Exhibited in Southern California by Contemporary Artists from 1979/80 to the Present. Los Angeles: Judson Gallery of Contempoary and Traditional Art, 2006.
Provenance
The artist; sold to Janice Tobin Baum and Dr. Richard Neil Baum, Los Angeles, CA; to Trotta-Bono Contemporary, Venice, California; sold to present collection, 2023.
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