Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp, from the portfolio Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

Kara Walker

1969 - Present

New York-based artist Kara Walker is best known for her candid investigation of race, gender, sexuality, and violence through silhouetted figures that have appeared in numerous exhibitions worldwide.

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Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp, from the portfolio Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

Alabama Loyalists Greeting the Federal Gun-Boats, from the portfolio Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

Lost Mountain at Sunrise, from the portfolio Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

Foote's Gun-Boats Ascending to Attack Fort Henry, from the portfolio Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

A Dream Deferred

Featured at

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington DC•CLOSED

National Gallery of Art

Washington DC•CLOSED

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York•CLOSED

The Museum of Modern Art

New York•CLOSED

Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

Middlesbrough•OPEN

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