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Nine Crow Clowns

Artist Wendy Red Star (North American Indian, Apsáalooke (Crow), Montana, born 1981)
Date2012
MediumNine pigment prints on satin canvas
DimensionsImage (each): 25 × 20 inches (63.5 × 50.8 cm)
Approximate (assembled): 75 3/4 × 60 3/8 inches (192.41 × 153.35 cm)
Credit LineGift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D.
Object number2016.44.1.1-9
On View
Not on view
DescriptionSeries of nine photographs of people dressed up as Crow Clowns in various costumes and masks.Provenance

Purchased from Wendy Red Star by Loren G. Lipson, 2016;

Loren G. Lipson, Santa Fe, NM, 2016;

His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.

Published References
Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Copyright© Wendy Red Star
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