  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  Portrait of a Collagist
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1989
  
  Artist
  Benny Andrews
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1930 - 2006
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  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.
  
  
  
  American
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group.
  
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Oil and collage on canvas
  
  
  Dimensions
  Framed: 91 3/8 × 51 1/4 × 3 inches (232.1 × 130.2 × 7.6 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  Department
  African American Art
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase with funds from the Friends of Modern Art, Friends of African Art, and funds from Dr. Julius V. and Mrs. Alice Combs, Ronald Dobbins, Robert and Sharon Madison Polk, Eldora and Green Moss III, John Bolden, Judge Norma Y. Dotson, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Johnson, Dr. Edward J. Littlejohn, Dr. Tina C. Mason, Mayimuma and Chileumbwe Mason, Dr. Robert E. Perkins, Nettie Seabrooks, Mr. and Mrs. Nate Shapiro, Shirley Moultona and Marva Allen, Dr. Gwendolyn Washington and Jacqueline Washington, Kaye and Faye Washington, Khalid Raheem Haywood and Sherry Washington, Delores J. Weber, Dr. and Mrs. James Witherspoon, Andy Williams Agency, Gregory J. Reed and Associates, P.C., Drs. Houston and Carolyn Williams, Charonda V. Anumel, Sally Jo and Miles A. Bond, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bowman, Jr., Bernard and Bettye Kilpatrick, Mr. amd Mrs. Malcolm G. Dade, Jr., Shirley R. and Sean M. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett S. Moten, Jr., Patterson, Phifer and Phillips, P.C., Kenneth and Marilyn White, Dr. Margaret Betts and Dr. Dexter Fields, Dr. Marjorie Peebles Meyers, Debra White-Hunt; gift of Mrs. George Kamperman by exchange;
  
  
  
  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.
  
  
  
  1993.65
  
  
  Copyright
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