Cotton by Alison Saar
Art Institute of Chicago

Cotton

Alison Saar · 2018

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist; sold through L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, to Richard (died 2020) and Ellen Levine (died 2022), New York, June, 2018 [email from Kimberly Davis, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 14, 2023.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Venice, CA, L.A. Louver, Alison Saar: Topsy Turvy, Mar. 28-May 25, 2018, no cat.
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Picturing Motherhood Now: Images for a New Era, Oct. 16, 2021-Mar. 13, 2022, cat. 41.
  • Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Art Museum, Art@Bainbridge, Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers, Feb. 25–July 9, 2023, no cat. no.

Literature

Published references

  • Emily Liebert, Nadiah Fellah, and William Griswold, Picturing Motherhood Now, exh. cat. (Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021), 74, 76, cat. 41.
  • Rebecca McGrew, Irene Tsatsos, Camille Dungy, Harryette Mullen, Alison Saar, Christina Sharpe, and Evie Shockley, Alison Saar: Of Aether and Earthe, exh. cat. (Claremont, CA: Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, 2020), back endpaper (color ill.).
  • Art @Bainbridge, Princeton University Art Museum, Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers, exh. brochure (Princeton, NJ: Art @Bainbridge, Princeton University Art, 2023), 8 (color ill.), 9.

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