Waiting
1955
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View on museum website →Medium
screenprint
Dimensions
Image:222 x 319mm Sheet:255 x 372mm
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation
Accession Number
2008.115.27
About the Artist
Calvin Burnett
Calvin W. Burnett (1921–2007) was a pioneering African-American artist, illustrator, and educator whose eclectic practice bridged commercial art, fine printmaking, and social commentary. Born on July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, into a family of four children facing the hardships of the Great Depression—his father was a physician often paid in goods like chickens or beans—Burnett discove...