Glenn Ligon
Runaways
1993
Glenn Ligon’s work is often autobiographical, exploring how his own identity as a black man intersects with and is shaped by the sociopolitical circumstances and events of American culture, past and present. His print portfolio Runaways mimics the rhetoric and typography of nineteenth-century advertisements for runaway slaves in Southern newspapers, inserting various contemporary descriptions of himself in place of the runaway. The descriptions were drawn from ten of his friends, each of whom was asked to provide a verbal account of Ligon as though reporting his disappearance to the police. The texts that emerged from this process combine the casual language of physical appearance with the blunt reality of slavery. [Permanent collection label, 2017]
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Artist
Artist Glenn Ligon
(American, b. 1960)
- Title Runaways
- Date 1993
- Medium Portfolio of 10 lithographs
- Edition description 30/45
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Dimensions
sheet | 22 x 16 in. (each)
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Includes
Untitled, from the portfolio Runaways
Untitled, from the portfolio Runaways
Untitled, from the portfolio Runaways
Untitled, from the portfolio Runaways
Untitled, from the portfolio Runaways
Title Page, from the portfolio Runaways
Untitled, from the portfolio Runaways
Untitled, from the portfolio Runaways
Untitled, from the portfolio Runaways
Untitled, from the portfolio Runaways
Untitled, from the portfolio Runaways
- Credit line University purchase, Nathan Cummings Fund and Art Acquisition Fund, 1996
- Object number WU 1996.01.01-.10
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Technique
lithography
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Work type
print
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