Atrabiliarios

About the Artwork

Title Atrabiliarios

Artwork Date 1993

Artist Doris Salcedo

Life Dates born 1958

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Colombian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Shoes, animal tissue (cow bladder), thread, drywall, paint, wood

Dimensions Overall: 39 1/2 × 74 × 4 1/2 inches (100.3 × 185.4 × 14 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department Contemporary Art after 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, with funds from the Friends of Modern Art and Stephan J. and Marian E. Loginsky

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1999.70

Copyright Non-commercial all standard museum