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Exhibition Review
Betye Saar: Call and Response
03/2021 | 1416 | 163
Pages: 286-287
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Reviewer:
Monahan, Anne (Monahan, Anne)
Subjects
artists:
Saar, Betye
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Morgan Library and Museum, New York, United States
subjects:
American art / Assemblages / Sketchbooks / Collages / Black people
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Betye Saar: Call and Response Morgan Library and Museum, New York 12th September 2020– 31st January 2021 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
21. The edge of ethics, by Betye Saar. 2010. Metal cage, figures, chain, glass bottle and fan coral, 26.7 by 23.5 by 14 cm. (Private collection; courtesy the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles; exh. Morgan Library and Museum, New York).
Attributed works:
22. Sketchbook page for The edge of ethics, 14th January 2010. Ballpoint pen, marker and coloured pencil on paper pasted into sketchbook. (Courtesy the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles; exh. Morgan Library and Museum, New York).
Attributed works:
23. Pocadonia, from the series A Secretary to the Spirits [for Ishmael Reed], by Betye Saar. 1975–78. Collage of cut and torn printed papers and Letraset border tape, with porous point pen, ink wash, watercolour and ink stamps on laminated paperboard, 38.1 by 25.4 cm. (Morgan Library and Museum, New York; photograph Janny Chiu).