The GettyResearch Institute
Research Home Tools Union List of Artist Names Full Record Display
Union List of Artist Names Full Record Display
New Search Previous Page Help
Click the icon to view the hierarchy.
 
Semantic View (JSON, JSONLD, RDF, N3/Turtle, N-Triples)

ID: 500123343
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500123343
 
Record Type: Person
Walker, Kara (American book artist, painter, and installation artist, born 1969)

Note: Known for her nearly life-sized silhouettes of stereotypical slave narratives that explore race relations and its history through jolting yet whimsical pictorial means; included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial.

Names:
Walker, Kara (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
Kara Walker (V,display)
Walker, Kara Elizabeth (V)
Kara Elizabeth Walker (V,LC)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
African American

Roles:
artist (preferred)
book artist
painter
installation artist
silhouette artist
printmaker
filmmaker
paper artist
serigrapher

Gender: female

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Stockton (San Joaquin county, California, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   Providence (Providence county, Rhode Island, United States) (inhabited place)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Walker, Kara (I)

Biographies:
(American book artist, painter, and installation artist, born 1969) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American artist, born 1969) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American silhouettist) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, born 1969) ..... [MoMA]
(American painter, installation artist, and book artist, born 1969) ..... [NMWA]
(American paper-cut artist, 1969-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Kara Elizabeth Walker ........ [GRISC, GRL, VP]
...........................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
...........................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
Kara Walker ........ [MoMA Preferred, VP, WL-Courtauld]
........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Walker, Kara ........ [Grove Art Preferred, MoMA, NMWA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 7679
..........................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..........................  National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection Records
..........................  NMWA database (2018-)
..........................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 239757
..........................  Whitney Biennial Exhibition (1997) 191
..........................  Witt Library, Authority files
Walker, Kara Elizabeth ........ [GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, MoMA, VP Preferred]
.............................................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
.............................................  GRI Special Collections [online] (2005-) accessed 8 June 2005
.............................................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
.............................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 98033590
.............................................  Walker, Freedom: A Fable (1997)

Subject: ........ [Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, Grove Art, MoMA, NMWA, RKD, VP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-) http://www.moma.org/collection/artists/7679
....................  Carnegie International 1999/2000 (1999)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n98033590
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules 7679
....................  GRI Special Collections [online] (2005-) accessed 8 June 2005
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n98033590
....................  NMWA database (2018-)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 239757
....................  SNAC: Social Networks and Archival Context [online] (2018-) 26323498
....................  VIAF: Virtual International Authority File [online] (2009-) 77127744
....................  Walker, Freedom: A Fable (1997)
....................  Whitney Biennial Exhibition (1997) 191
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q5242608; Q444277
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [WL-Courtauld]
New Search

Back to Top

Printer Friendly Version
The J. Paul Getty Trust
The J. Paul Getty Trust

© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / Contact Us