Art Institute of Chicago
Fairy Godmother Offers Some Unrequested Advice
Kara Walker · 1998
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold by Wooster Gardens, New York, to Susan and Lew Manilow, Chicago, c. 1998; given to the Art Institute, 2016.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Wooster Gardens, "Kara Walker," Oct. 22 - Nov. 28, 1998.
- Dallas, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, "Kara Walker," Jan. - Feb. 1999.
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, "Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection," Mar. 18 – June 25, 2000, pp. 20-21 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- Jerry Cullum, "Starting Out from Atlanta: Three Artists Imagine History," The International Review of African American Art 18.3 (2002), pp. 44 (ill.).
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