"Words are just a way we communicate. Images are a way we communicate. And I couldn't figure out why they had to be in different baskets."
—John Baldessari
"Negress Notes" (1996)
"Negress Notes," 1996
Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper, 10 1/4 x 7 inches
Collection Susan and Lewis Manilow
Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper, 10 1/4 x 7 inches
Collection Susan and Lewis Manilow
Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
"I have always been attracted to the lure, work that draws a viewer in through a kind of seductive offering: ‘Here’s something to look at. Stay a while.’"
- Kara Walker
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