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Kara Walker

American · 1969–

Kara Walker

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Scene #26 from the "Emancipation Approximation" Portfolio, Kara Walker

Scene #26 from the "Emancipation Approximation" Portfolio

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b'tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart, Kara Walker, 1994

Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b'tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart

1994 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Kara Walker, 1995

Untitled

1995 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Kara Walker, 1996

Untitled

1996 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Kara Walker, 1996

Untitled

1996 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Kara Walker, 1996

Untitled

1996 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Kara Walker, 1996

Untitled

1996 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Kara Walker, 1996

Untitled

1996 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Kara Walker, 1996

Untitled

1996 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Kara Walker, 1996

Untitled

1996 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Kara Walker, 1996

Untitled

1996 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Kara Walker, 1996

Untitled

1996 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Kara Walker, 1996

Untitled

1996 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Roots and Links, Inc., Kara Walker, 1997

Roots and Links, Inc.

1997 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Vanishing Act, Kara Walker, 1997

Vanishing Act

1997 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (John Brown), Kara Walker, 1997

Untitled (John Brown)

1997 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Cotton, Kara Walker, 1997

Cotton

1997 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

L'l Patch of Woods, Kara Walker, 1997

L'l Patch of Woods

1997 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

African/American, Kara Walker, 1998

African/American

1998 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the Museum in Progress project Interventions: Safety Curtain, Kara Walker, 1998

Untitled from the Museum in Progress project Interventions: Safety Curtain

1998 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the Museum in Progress project Safety Curtain, Kara Walker, 1999

Untitled from the Museum in Progress project Safety Curtain

1999 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 18) from Five Poems, Kara Walker, 2002

Plate (page 18) from Five Poems

2002 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Five Poems, Kara Walker, 2002

Five Poems

2002 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 8) from Five Poems, Kara Walker, 2002

Plate (page 8) from Five Poems

2002 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 14) from Five Poems, Kara Walker, 2002

Plate (page 14) from Five Poems

2002 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 26) from Five Poems, Kara Walker, 2002

Plate (page 26) from Five Poems

2002 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 22) from Five Poems, Kara Walker, 2002

Plate (page 22) from Five Poems

2002 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Search for Authenticity Sketched from Life at a South Carolina Slave Auction by Myself, Kara Walker, 2003

Search for Authenticity Sketched from Life at a South Carolina Slave Auction by Myself

2003 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Kara Walker, 2003

Untitled

2003 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

The Pullman Porter, Kara Walker, 2003

The Pullman Porter

2003 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Rebel Leader. Shadow puppet from Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions, Kara Walker, 2004

Rebel Leader. Shadow puppet from Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions

2004 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Shadow puppet from Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions, Kara Walker, 2004

Shadow puppet from Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions

2004 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Shadow puppet from Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions, Kara Walker, 2004

Shadow puppet from Testimony: Narrative of a Negress Burdened by Good Intentions

2004 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Alabama Loyalists Greeting the Federal Gun-Boats from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

Alabama Loyalists Greeting the Federal Gun-Boats from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Crest of Pine Mountain, Where General Polk Fell from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

Crest of Pine Mountain, Where General Polk Fell from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Deadbrook After the Battle of Ezra's Church from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

Deadbrook After the Battle of Ezra's Church from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker, Kara Walker, 2005

8 Possible Beginnings or: The Creation of African-America, a Moving Picture by Kara E. Walker

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Lost Mountain at Sunrise from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

Lost Mountain at Sunrise from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

An Army Train from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

An Army Train from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Occupation of Alexandria from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

Occupation of Alexandria from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Buzzard's Roost Pass from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

Buzzard's Roost Pass from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Banks's Army Leaving Simmsport from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

Banks's Army Leaving Simmsport from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Signal Station, Summit of Maryland Heights from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

Signal Station, Summit of Maryland Heights from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Foote's Gun-Boats Ascending to Attack Fort Henry from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

Foote's Gun-Boats Ascending to Attack Fort Henry from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Scene of McPherson's Death from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

Scene of McPherson's Death from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Pack-Mules in the Mountains from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

Pack-Mules in the Mountains from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborough to Atlanta from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), Kara Walker, 2005

Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborough to Atlanta from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

2005 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Restraint, Kara Walker, 2009

Restraint

2009 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art

no world, Kara Walker, 2010

no world

2010 · Not on view · National Gallery of Art

dread from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters, Kara Walker, 2010

dread from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters

2010 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

no world from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters, Kara Walker, 2010

no world from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters

2010 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

beacon (after R.G.) from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters, Kara Walker, 2010

beacon (after R.G.) from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters

2010 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

savant from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters, Kara Walker, 2010

savant from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters

2010 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

the secret sharerer from An Upeopled Land in Uncharted Waters, Kara Walker, 2010

the secret sharerer from An Upeopled Land in Uncharted Waters

2010 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

buoy from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters, Kara Walker, 2010

buoy from An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters

2010 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters, Kara Walker, 2010

An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters

2010 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Nina Simone, Kara Walker, 2010

Nina Simone

2010 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Crown kills Robbins (plate, facing page 29) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Crown kills Robbins (plate, facing page 29) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Sporting Life and Bess (plate, facing page 94) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Sporting Life and Bess (plate, facing page 94) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Porgy kills Crown (plate, facing page 89) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Porgy kills Crown (plate, facing page 89) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Fisherman (plate, facing page 72) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Fisherman (plate, facing page 72) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Porgy, departing, remembers (plate, facing page 102) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Porgy, departing, remembers (plate, facing page 102) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Porgy and moon (plate, facing page 38) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Porgy and moon (plate, facing page 38) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Crown and Bess on the island (plate, facing page 63) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Crown and Bess on the island (plate, facing page 63) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Porgy and Bess embrace (plate, facing page 54) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Porgy and Bess embrace (plate, facing page 54) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Sugar Makes This World, Kara Walker, 2013–14

Sugar Makes This World

2013–14 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Clara and baby (plate, facing page 14) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Clara and baby (plate, facing page 14) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Crapshooters (plate, facing page 22) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Crapshooters (plate, facing page 22) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Clara, Bess, and baby (plate, facing page 87) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Clara, Bess, and baby (plate, facing page 87) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

The dance (plate, facing page 61) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

The dance (plate, facing page 61) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Bess and baby (plate, facing page 87) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Bess and baby (plate, facing page 87) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Crown seduces Bess (plate, facing page 64) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Crown seduces Bess (plate, facing page 64) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Bess, delirious, remembers (plate, facing page 66) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Bess, delirious, remembers (plate, facing page 66) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Porgy taken to jail (plate, facing page 93) from Porgy & Bess, Kara Walker, 2013

Porgy taken to jail (plate, facing page 93) from Porgy & Bess

2013 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

African Boy Attendant Curio with Molasses and Brown Sugar, from "The Marvelous Sugar Baby" Installation at the old Domino Sugar Factory Warehouse (Bananas), Kara Walker, 2014

African Boy Attendant Curio with Molasses and Brown Sugar, from "The Marvelous Sugar Baby" Installation at the old Domino Sugar Factory Warehouse (Bananas)

2014 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

African Boy Attendant Curio with Molasses and Brown Sugar, from "The Marvelous Sugar Baby" Installation at the old Domino Sugar Factory Warehouse. (Rear Basket),, Kara Walker, 2014

African Boy Attendant Curio with Molasses and Brown Sugar, from "The Marvelous Sugar Baby" Installation at the old Domino Sugar Factory Warehouse. (Rear Basket),

2014 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

African Boy Attendant Curio with Molasses and Brown Sugar, from "The Marvelous Sugar Baby" Installation at the old Domino Sugar Factory Warehouse (Front Basket), Kara Walker, 2014

African Boy Attendant Curio with Molasses and Brown Sugar, from "The Marvelous Sugar Baby" Installation at the old Domino Sugar Factory Warehouse (Front Basket)

2014 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

40 Acres of Mules, Kara Walker, 2015

40 Acres of Mules

2015 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Resurrection Story with Patrons, Kara Walker, 2017

Resurrection Story with Patrons

2017 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Christ's Entry into Journalism, Kara Walker, 2017

Christ's Entry into Journalism

2017 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the series The Gross Clinician Presents: Pater Gravidam, Kara Walker, 2018

Untitled from the series The Gross Clinician Presents: Pater Gravidam

2018 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

No Land in Sight, Kara Walker, 2024

No Land in Sight

2024 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

The Hero with 1000 Diagnosable Disorders, Kara Walker, 2024

The Hero with 1000 Diagnosable Disorders

2024 · Not on view · The Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (White Woman Looking in Mirror), Kara Walker, 1994

Untitled (White Woman Looking in Mirror)

1994 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art

And So On, Kara Walker, 1994

And So On

1994 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art

My mistress my young mistress, Kara Walker, 1994

My mistress my young mistress

1994 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art

re-writing Black History, 400 years of bondage, 25 years of Boredom, Kara Walker, 1994

re-writing Black History, 400 years of bondage, 25 years of Boredom

1994 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art

Untitled (Black Boy Fishing a White Man), Kara Walker, 1994

Untitled (Black Boy Fishing a White Man)

1994 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art

Untitled (Black Woman with Big Skirt), Kara Walker, 1994

Untitled (Black Woman with Big Skirt)

1994 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art

A Means to An End... A Shadow Drama in Five Acts, Kara Walker, 1995

A Means to An End... A Shadow Drama in Five Acts

1995 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art

Negress Note (Aunt Dicey), Kara Walker, 1996

Negress Note (Aunt Dicey)

1996 · Not on view · Whitney Museum of American Art

Untitled (The Last Taste), Kara Walker, 1997

Untitled (The Last Taste)

1997 · Not on view · Art Institute of Chicago

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