Family Legacies Checklist:

1. Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar
Transitions in Black and White, 2005
A collaborative installation, dedicated to the memory of Richard W. Saar,
created for the Family Legacies exhibition
Mixed media
100 square feet

2. Portraits of family. Collection of the artists

3. Betye Saar
Girl Children, 1964
Sepia etching
18 x 14 in.
Collection of the artist

4. Betye Saar
Black Girl's Window, 1969
Mixed-media assemblage
35 1/4 x 18 x 1 ½ in.
Collection of the artist

 5. Betye Saar
Self-Window with Reflection, 1970
Mixed-media assemblage
14 3/4 x 24 x 1 1/2 in.
The Houseman Foundation

6. Betye Saar
De Ol’ Folks at Home , 1972
Mixed-media assemblage
10 3/4 x 22 3/4 x 4 ½ in.
Judith M. and Ronald R. Davenport

7. Betye Saar
Ten Mojo Secrets, 1972
Mixed-media assemblage
41 x 20 x 2 in.
Joe Austin

8. Betye Saar
Shield of Quality , 1974
Mixed-media assemblage in a box
18 x 14 3/4 x 1 in.
Collection of the Newark Museum, Purchase 1998
The Members’ Fund 98.37

9. Betye Saar
Letter from Home: Wish You Were Here , 1972
Mixed-media collage
19 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.
H alley k Harrisburg and Michael Rosenfeld, New York

10. Betye Saar
Frances Parson White, 1977
Mixed media on handkerchief
9 1/2 x 10 in.
Collection of the artist

11. Betye Saar
Emma Kelly Parson, 1977
Mixed media on handkerchief
9 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.
Collection of the artist

12. Betye Saar
Aunt Hattie, 1977
Mixed media on handkerchief
8 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.
Collection of the artist

13. Betye Saar
Beatrice Parson, 1977
Mixed media on handkerchief
11 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.
Collection of the artist

14. Betye Saar
Grandma Draugh, 1977
Mixed media on handkerchief
10 3/4 x 11 in.
Collection of the artist

15. Betye Saar
Rainbow Babe in the Woods, 1979
Mixed media on handkerchief
9 3/4 x 9 in.
Collection of the artist

16. Betye Saar
Wings of Morning , 1987-1992
Mixed-media installation
65 3/4 x 42 x 6 in.
Collection of the artist

17. Betye Saar
Eternity's Witness, 1992
Mixed-media assemblage
30 1/4 x 15 3/4 x 10 1/4 in.
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

18. Betye Saar
Supreme Quality , 1998
Mixed media on vintage washboard with metal tub, cloth and wood table
37 1/2 x 22 1/4 x 20 in.
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

19. Betye Saar
The Fragility of Smiles (Of Strangers Lost at Sea), 1998
Serigraph on rice paper
13 x 38 1/2 in.
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

20. Betye Saar
Redbone and Black: Sunrise Squaw and Midnight Man, 2000
Mixed-media collage on paperboard
12 3/4 x 8 3/4 x 1/4 in.
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

21. Betye Saar
Cream , 2001
Mixed-media collage on handmade paper
38 1/4 x 26 1/4
Collection of the artist

22. Betye Saar
Field , 2002
Mixed-media collage on paperboard
23 1/2 x 19 3/4 x 2 in.
Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

23. Lezley Saar
A Rake's Redemption, 1994
Acrylic and mixed media
18 x 18 x 11 in.
Collection of the artist  

24. Lezley Saar
Whiteface , 1997
Acrylic and mixed media
32 x 17 x 4 in.
Collection of the artist

25. Lezley Saar
Ascension of a Lilyskin, 1997
Acrylic and mixed media
86 x 40 x 5 in.
Lezley Saar, courtesy of Jan Baum Gallery

26. Lezley Saar
Geneva Saar Agustsson—Labeled Autistic, 1998
Mixed media on canvas
80 x 48 x 4 in.
Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City,
MO Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection, Gift of the William T. Kemper
Charitable Trust, UMB Bank, n.a., Trustee, 2000.1

27. Lezley Saar
Me, Myself and Identity Crisis , 1998
Acrylic and mixed media
21 1/2 x 17 x 4 1/2 in.
Collette Blanchard

28. Lezley Saar
Anastacia—Escrava e Martir Negra, 1998
Mixed-media collage and oil painting on wood panel
80 x 48 x 9 in.
H. Allen Evans

29. Lezley Saar
Harriet Hemmings: Slave Daughter of Thomas Jefferson, 1999
Acrylic and mixed media
80 x 48 x 4 in.
John and Sharon Hoffman

30. Lezley Saar
Saartjie Baartman, Hottentot Venus, 1999
Acrylic and mixed media
25 x 18 x 4 in.
Collection of the artist

31. Lezley Saar
Tale of the Tragic Mulatto , 1999
Acrylic and mixed media
80 x 48 x 4 in.
Collection of the artist

32. Lezley Saar
Fanny Moesbury was Forever Encountering Spirits , 2000
Acrylic and mixed media
23 x 16 x 4 in.
Lezley Saar, courtesy of Jan Baum Gallery

33. Lezley Saar
Rudolph Lucasie: Albino of Black Madagascar Lineage , 2001
Acrylic and mixed media
36 x 24 x 4 in.
Lezley Saar, courtesy of Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

34. Lezley Saar
Elizabeth Keckley: Mrs. Lincoln’s Seamstress , 2002
Acrylic on fabric
96 x 55 in.
Ackland Art Museum , Ackland Fund, 2005.

35. Lezley Saar
Mulatto Nation: Commemorative Plates , 2003
Jennifer Beals, Mariah Carey, Carol Channing, Colin Powell, The Rock,
Lilyskin Digital transfer on porcelain 6 plates, each 11 1/4 inch-diameter
Collection of the artist

36. Alison Saar
Si j'étais blanc, 1981
Carved wood, wax, cement, tile and glass
15 x 6 1/2 x 8 in.
Collection of Betye Saar

37. Alison Saar
Sweet Daddy Good Life, 1985
Mixed-media sculpture
103 x 120 in.
Collection of the Newark Museum, Purchase 1986
The Members’ Fund 86.8a-d

38.* Alison Saar
Sapphire, 1985
Wood and mixed media
28 x 31 x 10 in.
Gai Gherardi and Rhonda Saboff

39. Alison Saar
Briar Patch, 1988
Wood, wire, nails, caulking, iron and wax
11 x 34 x 14 in.
Anonymous Loan

40. Alison Saar
Rio Dulce from the installation Fertile Ground, 1993
Wood with oxidized copper and enamel
93 x 14 1/2 x 23 in.
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Purchase,
the R.H. Norton Trust, 93.11

41.** Alison Saar
Skin/Deep, 1993
Ceiling tin, nails, and copper
82 x 84 x 2 1/2 in.
Whitney Museum of American Art, Purchase,
with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 93.34a-b

42.** Alison Saar
Strange Fruit , 1995
Rusted tin roofing, wood, dirt, found objects, and rope
76 x 21 x 14 in.
The Baltimore Museum of Art: Contemporary Art
Endowment Fund BMA 1995.122

43. Alison Saar
Clean Sweep, 1997
Wood, tar, paint, and broom
32 1/2 x 7 ½ x 5 in.
John Hughes, Rhythm & Hues Studios

44. *** Alison Saar
Blonde Dreams, 1997
Wood, tar, gold leaf, and rope
95 1/2 x 7 x 6 in.
Collections of Eileen Harris-Norton and Peter Norton, Santa Monica

45. * Alison Saar
Chaos in the Kitchen , 1998
Wire, tin, tar, miscellaneous objects on wood
23 x 18 x 19 1/2 in.
Collection of Dr. Richard and Jan Baum

46. Alison Saar
Smokin' Papa Chaud, 2001
Ink and watercolor on Nepali paper; found objects
96 x 24 x 16 in.
Ackland Art Museum , Ackland Fund, 2005.  

47. Alison Saar
Cool Maman, 2001
Ink and watercolor on Nepali paper; found objects
96 x 24 x 16 in.
Ackland Art Museum , Ackland Fund, 2005.  

48. Alison Saar
‘Taint (from the Arizona series), 2002
Color monoprint
38 5/8 x 26 in.
Collection of the artist

49.*** Alison Saar
Lost Boys, 2001
Cast bronze hanging on red fabric 13 various sizes,
from 12 x 4 ½ in. to 9 x 3 1/2 in.
Collection of the artist

50.* Alison Saar
Inheritance, 2003
Wood, ceiling tin, and cotton
72 x 29 x 29 in.
H. Allen Evans 

51. Alison Saar
Rise Sally Rise, 2003
Mixed media
54 x 34 x 14 in.
Collection of Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull

*Not exhibited at the Palmer Museum of Art

** Exhibited at the Ackland Art Museum only

*** Not exhibited at the Ackland Art Museum