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Collections

Wangechi Mutu
Howl2006

Not on view
Vertical mixed-media work combining collage, painting, and drawing: a dense cluster of dark circular forms, fleshy pink shapes, and intertwined dark-skinned figures rises from a dripping white base, with crimson red splatters and two small pink-winged figures floating nearby

Wangechi Mutu, Edition Jacob Samuel, Howl, 2006, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Edition Jacob Samuel Archive. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, purchased jointly with funds provided by the LACMA Art Museum Council, the LACMA Prints and Drawings Council, the Ralph M. Parsons Fund, and the Grunwald Center Helga K. and Walter Oppenheimer Acquisition Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Wangechi Mutu
Kenya, Nairobi, born 1972, active New York
Printed by
Edition Jacob Samuel
United States, California, Santa Monica, established 1988
Title
Howl
Date Made
2006
Medium
Inkjet with screenprint
Dimensions
Frame:45 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 2 1/8. Image: 35 × 24 in. (88.9 × 60.96 cm) Sheet: 40 × 28 in. (101.6 × 71.12 cm)
Credit Line
Edition Jacob Samuel Archive. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, purchased jointly with funds provided by the LACMA Art Museum Council, the LACMA Prints and Drawings Council, the Ralph M. Parsons Fund, and the Grunwald Center Helga K. and Walter Oppenheimer Acquisition Fund
Accession Number
M.2010.15.69
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Lawson, Dhyandra. Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art & Poetics. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.