Inheritance
Alison Saar, American, born 1956
2003
Woodblock print with chine collé on Japanese paper
1/40
Image: 28 3/4 × 18 5/16 in. (73 × 46.5 cm)
Sheet: 31 7/8 × 21 1/16 in. (81 × 53.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a gift from the Lathrop Fellows
© Alison Saar
PR.2003.64.1
Printer
Sarah Amos
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right: Alison Saar 2003; numbered, in graphite, lower left: 1/40
Course History
AAAS 88.19, Contemporary African-American Artists, Michael Chaney, Summer 2021
AAAS 88.19, Contemporary African-American Artists, Michael Chaney, Summer 2021
ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022
Humanities 2.01, The Modern Labyrinth, Lucas Hollister, Petra McGillen, Andrea Tarnowski, Laura Edmondson, Winter 2023
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue, Process, Product and Black Practice, Turiya Adkins, Class of 2020, Homma Famiily Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 31 - October 3, 2021.
New Humanisms, Art History 5, Winter 2020, Mary Coffey, Associate Professor of Art History, Chad Elias, Assistant Professor of Art History, Teaching Exhibition, Class of 1967 Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, January 18, 2020 – March 15, 2020.
The Art of Civil Rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration, Elevator Vestibule Installation, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-26, 2007.
The Art of Spectatorship: A History of Viewing from the Renaissance to the Present Day, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19-April 6, 2008.
Provenance
Commissioned from the artist, by the Hood Museum of Art for the Lathrop Fellows, 2003.
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