Margaret Burroughs 1917-2010
Black Venus, 1957
Linoleum cut on Japan Paper
25 1/2 x 22 in.
64.8 x 55.9 cm
64.8 x 55.9 cm
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Female figure central to composition rising from the sea on a shell surrounded by attending cherubs.
Provenance
Swann AuctionExhibitions
"Queens, Gods, and Devotees", Maguire Art Museum. Dates: Sep 23, 2024 - Dec 13, 2024."Afrocosmologies", Wadsworth Atheneum. Dates: Oct 19, 2019 - Jan 20, 2020.
"An Essential Presence: The Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Allentown Art Museum. Dates: Jun 02, 2019 - Sep 01, 2019.
"Healing Through the Preservation of our Histories and Our Selves", University of Mary Washington. Dates: Jan 27, 2022 - Mar 24, 2022.
"Constructing Identity: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Portland Art Museum. Dates: Jan 28, 2017 - Jun 18, 2017.
Publications
1. Dorothy Price, Sarah Lea, Esther Chadwick, Cora Gilroy-Ware, Rose Thompson, Alayo Akinkugbe, (2024), "Entangled Pasts 1768-Now: Art, Colonialism and Change", "Entangled Pasts 1768-Now" Exhibition Catalog, Catalog, Royal Academy of the Arts, London, Notes: Margaret Burroughs' Black Venus illustrated on the following pages: Page 28, full page spread for Repairing the Sable Venus essay by Cora Gilroy-Ware Page 127, small image plate for Beauty and Difference: Prints, Poetry, Sculpture, and Photography by Sarah Lea. 2. Multiple Contributors, (2021), "Healing Through the Preservation of Our Histories and Our Selves", University of Mary Washington - Healing, Catalog, UMW Galleries, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, John McMillan and Ashe Laughlin 3. Berrisford Boothe, Moe Brooker, Brian Ferriso, James G. Petrucci, (2017), "Constructing Identity: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African-American Art", Portland Art Museum – Constructing Identity, Catalog, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Gretchen Dykstra3
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