Autobiography: Air/CS560, 1988

  • Howardena Pindell, American, born 1943

Acrylic, tempera, oil stick, blood, paper, polymer-photo transfer and vinyl on canvas

  • Overall: 90 × 84 1/2 inches (226.1 × 214 cm) Storage: 101 × 96 inches (256.5 × 243.8 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, with funds from Joan and Armando Ortiz Foundation, Friends of Modern Art, Avery K. Williams, Lynn E. Weaver, Ronald Maurice Ollie, and Kimberly Moore

2000.44

2000-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Beckwith, Naomi and Valerie Cassel Oliver, eds. Howardena Pindell: What Remains to be Seen. Exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Chicago, 2018, pp. 74-75 (fig. 75).

Howardena Pindell, Autobiography: Air/CS560, 1988, acrylic, tempera, oil stick, blood, paper, polymer-photo transfer and vinyl on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund, with funds from Joan and Armando Ortiz Foundation, et al., 2000.44.