  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  Black Like Me or, the Authentic Narrative of Glenn Ligon, a Black Man
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1993
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  Glenn Ligon  (Artist)
  American, born 1960
  (Printer)
  Burnet Editions, New York
  
  
  
  Medium
  Etching printed in black ink on dark cream chine colle on white wove paper
  
  
  Dimensions
  Plate: 21 7/8 × 15 5/8 inches (55.6 × 39.7 cm)
  Sheet: 28 × 21 1/4 inches (71.1 × 54 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Prints
  
  
  Department
  African American Art
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund
  
  
  
  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.
  
  
  
  1996.61.3
  
  
  Copyright
  © Courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles
