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Black Rage; or, How I Got Over; or, Sketches of the Life and Labor of Glenn Ligon, 1993

  • Glenn Ligon, American, born 1960
  • Burnet Editions, New York

Etching printed in black ink on greenish chine colle on white wove paper

  • Plate: 21 7/8 × 15 1/4 inches (55.6 × 38.7 cm) Sheet: 28 × 21 1/8 inches (71.1 × 53.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund

1996.61.8

Signed, lower right: Glenn Ligon '93

Drystamp, lower right of the white wove sheet: BURNET / EDITIONS; watermark: ARCHES

Inscribed in pencil, lower left of the white wove sheet: 26/45 Signed and dated in pencil, lower right of the white wove sheet: Glenn Ligon '93

1996-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Glenn Ligon, Black Rage; or, How I Got Over; or, Sketches of the Life and Labor of Glenn Ligon, 1993, etching printed in black ink on greenish chine colle on white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund, 1996.61.8.