Challenge--America
Date
1964
Artist
Lois Mailou Jones, American, b. Boston, Massachusetts, 1905–1998
Provenance
The artist, Washington, DC, to 22 November 1977
Museum Purchase, 1977
Exhibition History
MUSEE NATIONAL DES BEAUX-ARTS DU QUEBEC. "America. Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Collection," 9 June-5 September 2022, color ill. p. 134; color det. p. 130.
Published References
VANDIVER, REBECCA. Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020), fig. 70 (color), p. 143.
AQUIN, STEPHANE, et al. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection (New York: DelMonico Books, 2022), pl. 195, p. 218.
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School
African-American Figuration/Washington Regional
Credit Line
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Museum purchase, 1977
Data Source
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Accession Number
77.84
Type
Collage
Medium
Collage of printed papers and paint on canvas
Dimensions
39 1/8 x 30 1/8 in. (99.2 x 76.6 cm)
