White #1
Glenn Ligon, American, born 1960
1995
Etching and aquatint on wove paper
4/35
Plate: 8 15/16 × 6 7/8 in. (22.7 × 17.5 cm)
Sheet: 19 5/8 × 14 1/2 in. (49.8 × 36.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Phyllis and Bertram Geller 1937 Memorial Fund
© Glenn Ligon
PR.996.6
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, in graphite, lower right: Glenn Ligon '95; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: 4/35; embossed, lower right: BURNET / EDITIONS
Course History
SART 15, Drawing I, Gerald Auten, Spring 2012
SOCY 7.2, Race and Ethnicity, Emily Walton, Spring 2014
SOCY 7.1, Race and Ethnicity, Emily Walton, Winter 2015
Gallery Talk: The Embodiment of Language, Winter 2020
AAAS 88.19, Contemporary African-American Artists, Michael Chaney, Summer 2021
GEOG 72.01/AAAS 67.50/WGSS 66.09, Black Consciousness Black Feminism, Abby Neely, Spring 2022
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 24, Say Word., Callie Helen Thompson, Class of 2005, Student programming Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 15-April 3, 2005.
A Space for Dialogue 74, Text as Image / Image as Text: Narratives of African American History and Identity, Emma Routhier, Class of 2012, Levinson Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 3-December 2, 2012.
Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery elevator vestibule, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 6, 2005.
Loew Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 13-July 6, 1998
Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 24-April 12, 1998.
The Embodiment of Language, First Floor Corridor, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-May 24, 2020.
The Expanding Grid, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 7-August 27, 2012.
Publication History
Callie Helen Thompson, A Space for Dialogue 24, Say Word., Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2005, ill. p. 4.
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.185, no.196.
Emma Routhier, A Space for Dialogue 74, Text as Image / Image as Text: Narratives of African American History and Identity, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2012, ill. p. 3.
Provenance
Betsy Senior Contemporary Prints, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1996.
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