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Hepcat,
2019

Alison Saar, born 1956, Los Angeles, CA; active New York, NY and Los Angeles
Printed by Mullowney Printing, founded 2011
Published by Mullowney Printing, founded 2011

2022-30.1

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Title

Hepcat

Dates

2019

Maker

Alison Saar
Printed by Mullowney Printing
Published by Mullowney Printing

Medium

Multi-block linocut

Dimensions

49.5 × 45.7 cm (19 1/2 × 18 in.) frame: 58.4 × 54.6 × 3.8 cm (23 × 21 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, Kathleen Compton Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art

Object Number

2022-30.1

Signatures

Editioned, signed, dated in graphite: 11/20, A. Saar, 2019

Inscription

titled in graphite on verso: Hepcat

Culture

American

Type

linocuts, prints

Purchased from the artist via Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR, by Princeton University Art Museum, 2021

Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers
Art@Bainbridge, Princeton University Art Museum
February 25–April 23, 2023

Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers brings sculpture, prints, and textiles by the mixed-media artist Alison Saar into conversation with the work of Toni Morrison, whose vast trove of papers from her career as a novelist, essayist, playwright, professor, and editor are held in the Princeton University Library. Saar and Morrison share a dedication to giving voice to the Black American experience, drawing inspiration from past generations and creating space for future cultural production through a dynamic that Saar calls a “cycle of creativity.” The exhibition explores themes that resonate in the works of both Saar and Morrison—musicality, labor, and ancestors—through various facets of each artist’s practice.

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Alison Saar (born 1956, Los Angeles, CA; active New York, NY and Los Angeles), Printed by Mullowney Printing (founded 2011), Published by Mullowney Printing (founded 2011), Hepcat, 2019. Multi-block linocut; 49.5 × 45.7 cm, 58.4 × 54.6 × 3.8 cm (frame). Museum purchase, Kathleen Compton Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art (2022-30.1)
Princeton University Art Museum.
https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/140164

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