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Untitled

Untitled

Artist/Maker (American, born in Cuba, 1948–1985)
Date1981–84
MediumWash on paper
DimensionsOverall: 19 3/4 × 13 7/8 in. (50.2 × 35.2 cm)
Credit LineOberlin Friends of Art Fund and Ruth C. Roush Contemporary Art Fund
Object number1995.20
Status
Not on view
Copyright©The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, Courtesy Galerie Lelong, New YorkMore Information
This wash drawing depicts the curvilinear contours of an earth-mother figure, a form that Mendieta produced in a variety of media throughout her short career. The drawing records the fluid movements of the artist’s hand in applying ink to paper.
Provenance(Galerie Lelong, New York); purchased 1995 by Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OHExhibition History
Selected Acquisitions, 1991-1995
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 20, 1996 - April 18, 1996 )
Queering the Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 15, 2004 - June 6, 2004 )
Out of Line: Drawings from the Allen from the Twentieth Century and Beyond
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 1, 2009 - December 23, 2009 )
Ephemeral Installations and the Aesthetics of Nature
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 7, 2012 - June 17, 2012 )
Latin American and Latino Art at the Allen
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (September 2, 2014 - June 28, 2015 )
The Body is the Map: Approaches to Land in the Americas after 1960
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 22, 2019 - June 23, 2019 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
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