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Adrian Piper
Ur Mutter #41989

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Halftone print of a Black woman holding a sleeping toddler against her chest, both rendered in high-contrast black and gray tones, with red text along the bottom edge

Adrian Piper, Ur Mutter #4, 1989, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Black American Artists Fund, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Adrian Piper
United States, New York, New York City, born 1948
Title
Ur Mutter #4
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1989
Medium
Gelatin silver print, screen print text
Dimensions
Frame (Unframed): 40 × 23 in. (101.6 × 58.42 cm) Frame: 41 1/8 × 24 1/8 × 2 1/16 in. (104.46 × 61.28 × 5.24 cm)
Credit Line
Black American Artists Fund
Accession Number
AC1993.175.1
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography

  • Blondet, José Luis. Six Scripts for Not I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE-2020 CE). Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2020.

Copyright
Photograph photo credit: Peter Turnley/Black Star for Newsweek. © Adrian Piper Research Archive (APRA) Foundation Berlin

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