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Samella Sanders Lewis
Migrants1949/2006

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Woodcut or linocut print of five figures seated inside a dark, cramped interior, rendered in bold black ink with dense carved lines on cream paper
Artist or Maker
Samella Sanders Lewis
United States, Louisiana, New Orleans,1924-2022
Title
Migrants
Date Made
1949/2006
Medium
Linocut
Dimensions
Sheet: 13 1/4 × 16 1/4 in. (33.66 × 41.28 cm) Frame: 18 × 21 1/8 × 2 1/8 in. (45.72 × 53.66 × 5.4 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Stephanie Blackmore Vahn, the Robert Gore Rifkind Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA, and the Prints and Drawings Council
Accession Number
M.2022.72.5
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Copyright
© Samella Sanders Lewis, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA, by Jonathan Urban

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