Li'l Patch of Woods

Kara Walker, artist

born 1969

Landfall Press, printer and publisher

active 1970–2004

Li'l Patch of Woods, 1997

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: etching; wove paper; aquatint

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 304 x 227 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 457 x 381 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 11 15/16 x 8 15/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 18 x 15 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in

Credit line: Gift of Susan and Charles Young, Glastonbury, CT

Accession number: 1997.0043

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Artist Kara Walker is known for her highly charged, open-ended visual narratives of slaves and slaveowners in the antebellum South. Li’l Patch of Woods depicts a young woman giving birth as Union or Confederate soldiers pass close to her hiding place. Like much of Walker’s work, this print counters heroic narratives of the Civil War and confronts the viewer with a less sanitized history of race relations in the United States.