Untitled (Four Etchings), Untitled (I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background)
Artist
Glenn Ligon
American, born 1960
Date1992
MediumSoftground etching, aquatint, spitbite, and sugarlift etching on Rives BFK paper. 1 of suite of 4 etchings.
Dimensions25 x 17 in. (63.5 x 43.2 cm) paper
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2003.1.1
DescriptionRectangular portrait-oriented support; black stenciled text on white paper. Text reads, "I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background." Text repeats over and over again in vertical lines with different spacing between words and letters. Smudging is introduced into the print and becomes more prominent in the lower half of the print until the words and letters become nearly illegible. The text is quoted from Zora Neale Hurston's 1928 essay "How It Feels To Be Colored Me."On View
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