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KARA WALKER (1969 - ) An Army Train.
Offset lithograph and screenprint on Somerset Textured wove paper, 2005. 610x890 mm; 24x35 inches, full margins. One of two printer's proofs, aside from the editon of 35. Signed, dated, inscribed "PP" and numbered 2/2 in pencil, lower right. Printed and published by the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University. From the portfolio of 15 prints Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated).
According to the Neiman Center, each of these 15 prints began with an enlargement, using offset lithography, of a woodcut plate from Ed. Alfred H. Guernsey and Henry M. Alden's Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War, which was first published in Chicago in 1866. Each of these images was then overlaid with Walker's silhouette figures rendered with solid black silkscreen. This print series marked the first time Walker united her trademark silhouettes with the kind of historical documentation that influenced her aesthetics.
