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KARA WALKER (1969 - ) Untitled (Mother, Scarecrow & Children).
Pen, ink and wash on cream wove paper, 1996. 359x283 mm; 14 1/8x11 1/8 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right.
Provenance: Wooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema (now Sikkema Jenkins & Co.), New York; private collection, New York.
This early drawing is an excellent example of the other side of Kara Walker's work, the small works on paper that inform her more celebrated cut out silhouettes. In 1996, Kara Walker had her second solo exhibition at Wooster Gardens/Brent Sikkema in New York, Kara Walker: From the Bowls to the Bosom. Walker had her first solo gallery exhibition there only a year before. Shortly after receiving her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Walker first came to the attention of the contemporary art world with her 50 foot mural-sized installation at the Drawing Center, New York, in 1994.
While drawing has come to the fore in her more recent work, it was always an integral part of her narratives. In 1996, in addition to her large installations, she produced a series of 24 small watercolors titled Negress Notes (Brown Follies). The Walker Art Center highlighted drawing as one of the many media Walker employs for their important 2007 retrospective exhibition, Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love: "Drawing is a constant process for Kara Walker. She draws images to cut into silhouettes, creates works in charcoal, uses colored pencil on paper and sketches thoughts and ideas in notebooks with diaristic spontaneity. Small in scale, but powerful in content..."
