  About the Artwork
  
  
  A painter who also worked with constructions and found objects, Snowden combined the formal issues of surface, texture, and geometric shape with personal history, emotion, and intuition. The death of both of her parents in 1987 led her to produce a series of assemblages, of which “Monument” is the last, dedicated to their memory. Covered with encaustic, a waxy medium that suggests age, these works are charged with personal symbolism that turns them into a “repository of memories.”
  
  
  Title
  Monument
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1988
  
  Artist
  Gilda Snowden
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1954 - 2014
  
  
  
  
  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
  Encaustic on wood with objects
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 76 × 81 × 8 inches (193 × 205.7 × 20.3 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  Department
  African American Art
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Chaim, Fanny, Louis, Benjamin, Anne and Florence Kaufman Memorial Trust
  
  
  
  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.
  
  
  
  1990.300
  
  
  Copyright
  Courtesy of Gilda Snowden
