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KARA WALKER (1969 - ) Untitled (Lincoln).
Gouache on wove paper, 1997. 1651x1080 mm; 65x42 1/4 inches. Initialed and dated in pencil, upper right verso.
Provenance: Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NY, with gallery label on the frame back; private collection, Illlinois; private collection, Pennsylvania (2020).
This large work on paper is a significant early work by Kara Walker. While Walker is best known for her cut paper silhouettes, drawing is at the core of her artistic practice. In 1997, Kara Walker became the youngest recipient of the the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award, known as the MacArthur "genius" grant, at the age of 27. The same year, Walker also had her first traveling solo institutional exhibition Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage Through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such May Be Found, By Myself, Missus K.E.B. Walker, Colored. originating at the Renaissance Society, the University of Chicago. Just three years earlier, Kara Walker had completed her MFA degree from the Rhode Island School of Design.
