Untitled #87b
Pindell was encouraged in her use of aggregation after traveling in 1973 and 1977 to Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, and Senegal, where the technique was associated with both ritual and empowerment. She took the 1973 trip with Lowery Stokes Sims, then an assistant curator at The Met, who purchased this work for its collection.
Artwork Details
- Title: Untitled #87b
- Artist: Howardena Pindell (American, born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1943)
- Date: 1977
- Medium: Cut and torn pasted paper, punched paper, acrylic, watercolor, board, and thread on board, mounted on board
- Dimensions: 22 1/8 × 26 in. (56.2 × 66 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of the Department Gifts and matching funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1978
- Object Number: 1978.185.1
- Rights and Reproduction: © Howardena Pindell
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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