Identity Shifts: Works from VMFA
A Companion to Posing Beauty: African American Beauty and Culture
April 26 through July 27, 2013
I: Contemporary Gallery
Faith Ringgold,
Tar Beach II,
1990
Quilt (acid dyes screen-printed)
66 3/4" H x 67 1/2" W
Gift of Marion Boulton Stroud
Alison Saar,
Untitled figure from the installation "Crossroads",
1989
wood and mixed media, 72 H x 18 W x 16 D in.
Museum Purchase, The Sydney and Frances
Lewis Endowment Fund
Renee Stout
Erzulie Dreams, 1992
mixed media, 65" H x 23" W x 18" D
Kathleen Boone Samuels Memorial Fund
Iona Rozeal Brown,
a³blackface #59, 2003
Acrylic on paper, 49 3/4" H x 38" W, unframed 58
1/2" H x 46 1/2" W, framed
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lindley T. Smith
TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK
American, born 1974
The Former and the Ladder or Ascension and a
Cinchin', 2012
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
84 x 132 x 3 inches
Robert Pruitt
American
Steeped, 2011
Conté and charcoal on hand-dyed paper
50 1/2 in H x 47 in W (framed)
Funds provided by Jil and Hiter Harris
DERRICK ADAMS
American, born
Head #2 (Floor Plan) from the Deconstruction
Worker series, 2011
Mixed media collage
36 x 36 inches; 42 x 42 framed (estimate)
Alison Saar,
Snake Man, 1994
woodcut and lithograph on rice, 28" H x 37 1/8"
W, unframed
Museum Purchase, The National
II. Loans from the Royall Collection
Barkely Hendricks
Mayreh (Mary Sheehan), 1973
72 x 50 inches
Bill and Pamela Royall
Sonya Clark
Black Hair Flag, 2010
Paint, canvas, thread, 52 x 26 in.
Bill and Pamela Royall
Kehinde Wiley
The Two Sisters, 2012
Oil on linen, 96 x 72 in.
Bill and Pamela Royall
Mickalene Thomas
Interior: Two Chairs and Fireplace, 2011
Acrylic and oil enamel with rhinestones on panel,
96 x 72 in.
Bill and Pamela Royall
Nick Cave
Soundsuit, 2011
Fabric, sequins, beads, embroidery, and
mannequin, 102 x 36 x 36 in.
Bill and Pamela Royall
III. Photography/Works on Paper Gallery
James VanDerZee
Boxer, 1918
Gelatin silver print, 5 1/2" H x 3 1/2" W,
unframed; 16 x 20 framed
James VanDerZee
Self-Portrait, ca. 1925
Gelatin silver print, 7" H x 5" W, unframed; 16 x
20 framed
James VanDerZee
The Graduate, 1935
Gelatin silver print, 7 1/4" H x 5" W, unframed;
16 x 20 framed
James VanDerZee
Casual Note, 1930
Gelatin silver print, 5 1/2" H x 3 1/2" W,
unframed; 16 x 20 framed
James VanDerZee
Great Hair Day, 1925
Gelatin silver print, 6 3/4" H x 4 1/2" W,
unframed; 16 x 20 framed
James VanDerZee
Portrait of Mother and Two Children, 1934
Gelatin silver print, 6 1/2" H x 4 1/2" W,
unframed; 16 x 20 framed
James VanDerZee
Portrait of Couple and Baby, 1930
Gelatin silver print, 6 3/4" H x 4 3/4" W,
unframed; 16 x 20 framed
Louis Draper
Untitled [Garment worker], 1960s
Gelatin silver print, 6 15/16 x 9 ½ in.
NEA Fund for American Art
Louis Draper
[Susan B. Anthony], Bronx, 1975
Gelatin silver print, 6 7/8 x 6 5/8 in.
NEA Fund for American Art
Louis Draper
[Youth with beret], Bronx, 1975
Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 in.
NEA Fund for American Art
Louis Draper
[Plaid youth], date unknown [ca. 1970s]
Gelatin silver print, 9/16 x 6 3/16 in.
NEA Fund for American Art
Louis Draper
Fannie Lou Hamer, Mississippi, 1971
Gelatin silver print, 9 x 6 1/8 in.
NEA Fund for American Art
Anthony Barboza
Grace Jones, ca. 1970
Gelatin silver print, sheet: 14" H x 10 15/16" W;
image: 13 5/8" H x 10 5/8" W
NEA Fund for American Art
Anthony Barboza
NYC (Man on Street), ca. 1970
sheet: 10 7/8" H x 13 7/8" W; image: 8 11/16" H
x 12 7/8" WNEA Fund for American Art
CHESTER HIGGINS JR.
(American, born 1946)
The Artist’s Great-Aunt Shugg Lampley, New
Brockton, Alabama, 1968
Gelatin silver print, sheet: 9 3/4" H x 6 5/8" W
NEA Fund for American Art
CHUCK STEWART
(American, born 1927)
James Brown, 1966
Gelatin silver print, sheet: 13 15/16" H x 10
15/16" W; image: 10 1/2" H x 9" W
NEA Fund for American Art
Carrie Mae Weems,
Blue Black Boy, 1990
gelatin silver print toned blue; overmat, wood
frame, plexiglass, with applied lettering, 16 7/8 x
16 7/8 in./framed 6 5/8 x 6 5/8
in./sight
Museum Purchase with funds provided by a grant
from the Polaroid Foundation,
Hank Willis Thomas (in collaboration with Sanford
Biggers)
Zero Hour, 2012
Edition 2 0f 3, with 2 artists proofs
Digital C-Print and plexi with Luministy film, 40
½ x 30 inches per panel (6 panels)
Eldzier Cortor
Composition Study III
Aquatint, 28 5/8 x 22 1/8” (sheet); 20 15/16 x
16”
Gift of Eldzier Cortor in memory of Sophia R.
Cortor
Alexander Brooks Jackson
Ghetto Sketch #1, 1970s
Acrylic, charcoal on canvas,
65 1/2" H x 45" W
Kathleen Boone Samuels Memorial Fund