Black Bird
- Date
- 1980
- Material
- Lithograph
- printed in
- New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 30 in. × 22 1/16 in. (76.2 × 56 cm)
framed: 33 1/8 × 25 1/8 × 2 in. (84.1 × 63.8 × 5.1 cm) - Credit Line
- The Thelma and Bert Ollie Memorial Collection, Gift of Ronald and Monique Ollie
- Rights
- © Benny Andrews / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, NY
- Object Number
- 117:2017
NOTES
In this lithograph, Benny Andrews depicted a bird taking flight within an ambiguous setting. The surreal landscape relates to his Utopia series, in which he imagined an idyllic world without humans—free from all kinds of discrimination. His fantastical scenes, like this one, which fluctuate between abstraction and a representational style, present poignant themes throughout his work. Here, Andrews also explored the perceived textures he could achieve in lithography.
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