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Printed with tones of black, gray, and smoky gray, two oversized hands reach out of an ocean and hold up a masted ship in this horizontal etching, aquatint, and drypoint. Closer to us, the black silhouette of a woman sinks under the surface of the water, face down with her arms thrust back and her mouth gaping open. Her features are exaggeratedly rounded to reference stereotypes historically connected with Black and African people. The wave surges to our left, and the giant hands lift the boat just left of center of the composition. Small in scale, two silhouetted people stand on a flat area to the left. One wears a brimmed, flat-topped hat, a coat with tails, and holds up a tool, perhaps a hoe. The other wears a spiky headdress and skirt and holds up a stalk of sugar cane. The sky is pale gray to either side of a plume of white and a black void with jagged edges, which spreads like a seeping stain down the middle of the sky. Under the image and across the bottom of the page, the artist wrote “A.P. VI/VIII” to the left and “KW 2010” to the right lightly in graphite. — Kara Walker, Greg Burnet, Burnet Editions Master Printers, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., no world, 2010, color etching, drypoint, and aquatint with sugarlift and spitbite on Hahnemühle Copperplate wove paper, Donald and Nancy de Laski Fund, 2015.42.1

no world

Kara Walker, Greg Burnet, Burnet Editions Master Printers, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. · 2010 · color etching, drypoint, and aquatint with sugarlift and spitbite on Hahnemühle Copperplate wove paper · Accession ID 2015.42.1

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Restraint

Kara Walker, Burnet Editions Master Printers, Burnet Editions Master Printers · 2009 · etching with aquatint on wove Somerset paper · Accession ID 2024.147.29

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Kindle (for Parkett no. 76)

Julie Mehretu, Parkett Editions, Burnet Editions Master Printers, Greg Burnet · 2006 · etching, engraving, and drypoint on Somerset paper · Accession ID 2022.35.28