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Betye Saar
Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time1998

Not on view
Vertical color print with surging orange and red flames against a swirling cobalt blue ground; a dark-skinned face with a wide smile peers from the lower right, wearing a patterned cloth reading "LIBERATION"
Artist or Maker
Betye Saar
United States, born 1926
Title
Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time
Date Made
1998
Medium
Lithograph with handpainted collage transfer
Dimensions
Sheet: 27 1/8 × 22 3/8 in. (68.9 × 56.85 cm) Image: 27 1/8 × 22 3/8 in. (68.9 × 56.83 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Julie and Bennett Roberts, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California
Accession Number
M.2020.262.4
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Copyright
© Betye Saar