Untitled ("I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance")
Sojourner TruthWW-1864-008430
1864·Albumen print·Image/paper: 8.8 × 5.6 cm (3 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.); Mount: 10 × 6.2 cm (3 15/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
Gift of W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg
Catalogue
- Year
- 1864
- Medium
- Albumen print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 8.8 × 5.6 cm (3 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.); Mount: 10 × 6.2 cm (3 15/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Sojourner Truth
Artist
Sojourner Truth
Printmaking
Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.
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- Sojourner Truth
- Year
- 1864
- Medium
- Albumen print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 8.8 × 5.6 cm (3 1/2 × 2 1/4 in.); Mount: 10 × 6.2 cm (3 15/16 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1864-008430
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified