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Sculpture
Maquette for "Swing Low"
Alison Saar, 1956 -
Saar, Alison
United States
1956
Female
Primary
22 1/16 x 12 3/16 x 24 in. (56.1 x 31 x 61 cm)
Bronze
Bronze
2007
2007
2007
Images of Black People
Sculpture
Take some time to look at this figure of a woman. Don’t miss the roots that she trails behind her and the faces and objects that are scattered on her skirt. This is a portrait sculpture of Harriet Tubman, the heroic woman who escaped from slavery and yet returned to the South between 1849 and 1860 to lead over seventy slaves to freedom. In later years, she worked alongside Susan B. Anthony to advance women’s right to vote.
Artist Alison Saar was commissioned to create a public sculpture of Tubman for a park at 122nd Street in New York City. MAG’s work is a maquette, or a smaller version. Saar represented Harriet Tubman as a person of great determination and strength, and positioned her as an oncoming train because of her reputation as “the Moses of the Underground Railroad”. Even her petticoat resembles a train’s cowcatcher, pushing aside all obstacles in its path. Roots signify Tubman’s efforts to uproot slavery, and the uprootedness of the slaves who had to leave everything behind. “Swing Low” is a Negro spiritual said to be one of Tubman’s favorites.
[Gallery label, 2008]
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6/17/2008
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Print
Tango
Alison Saar, 1956 -
Saar, Alison
United States
1956
Female
Primary
29 1/8 x 41 3/16 in. (74 x 104.6 cm)
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2005
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Print
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2008.68
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Memorial Art Gallery
12/3/2008
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