Artworks

Margaret Burroughs 1917-2010

Black Venus, 1957

Linoleum cut on Japan Paper

25 1/2 x 22 in.
64.8 x 55.9 cm

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Further images

View on a Wall

Female figure central to composition rising from the sea on a shell surrounded by attending cherubs.

Provenance

Swann Auction

Exhibitions

"Afrocosmologies", Wadsworth Atheneum. Dates: 19/10/2019-20/01/2020. Location: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. "An Essential Presence: The Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Allentown Art Museum. Dates: 02/06/2019-01/09/2019. Location: Allentown, PA. Link: https://www.allentownartmuseum.org/exhibitions/an-essential-presence-the-petrucci-family-foundation- "Healing Through the Preservation of our Histories and Our Selves", University of Mary Washington. Dates: 27/01/2022-24/03/2022. Location: University of Mary Washington Galleries. "Constructing Identity: Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art", Portland Art Museum. Dates: 28/01/2017-18/06/2017. Location: Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR. Link: https://portlandartmuseum.org/exhibitions/constructing-identity/ "Queens, Gods, and Devotees", Maguire Art Museum. Dates: 23/09/2024-13/12/2024. Location: St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, OA

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 Dykstra

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