About the Artwork
Autobiography: Air/CS560
1988
Howardena Pindell
born 1943
American
Unknown
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)
Paintings
African American Art
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
Non-commercial all standard museum
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Provenance
2000-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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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).
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© Courtesy of Howardena D. Pindell
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.
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