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
42 of 50
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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 DykstraRelated artists
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Charles Henry Alston
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Emma Amos
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William Artis
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Herman “Kofi” Bailey
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Radcliffe Bailey
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Edward M. Bannister
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Richmond Barthé
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Romare Bearden
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Dawoud Bey
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John Biggers
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Camille Billops
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Robert Blackburn
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James Brantley
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Moe Brooker
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Grafton Tyler Brown
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N.E. Brown
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Barbara Bullock
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Calvin Burnett
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Margaret Burroughs
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Charles Burwell
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Donald E. Camp
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Ralph Chessé
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Sonya Clark
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Kevin Cole
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Willie Cole
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Eldzier Cortor
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Ernest Crichlow
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Marita Dingus
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John Dowell
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David Driskell
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James Dupree
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Allan Edmunds
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Allan Freelon
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Reginald Gammon
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Herbert Gentry
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Sam Gilliam
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Rex Goreleigh
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Palmer Hayden
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Curlee Holton
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Ed Hughes
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Bill Hutson
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Martina Johnson-Allen
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Frederick D. Jones
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Lois Mailou Jones
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Paul Keene
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Avel de Knight
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Columbus Knox
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Beni E. Kosh
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Artis Lane
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Hughie Lee-Smith
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Norman Lewis
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Samella Lewis
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Deryl Mackie
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Tom Malloy
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Ulysses Marshall
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Richard Mayhew
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James C. McMillan
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Sam Middleton
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Norma Morgan
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Chris Ofili
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Debra Priestly
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Faith Ringgold
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Charles Sallee
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Joyce Scott
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Charles Searles
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Sterling Shaw
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Louis Sloan
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Arvie Smith
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Vincent Smith
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Nelson Stevens
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Henry Ossawa Tanner
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Mickalene Thomas
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Dox Thrash
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James VanDerZee
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Kara Walker
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Laura Wheeler Waring
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Gregory Warmack
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Richard Watson
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James Lesesne Wells
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Charles E. Williams
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John Wilson
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Beulah Woodard
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Hale Woodruff
