Glenn Ligon
11395, b. 1960
Untitled (Negro Sunshine)
2016
bookprint on paper
from the edition of 1000
12 x 9 inches (image)
20 x 16 inches (as framed)

Page removed from a limited edition catalog made for the Glenn Ligon's exhibition in 2016 in an edition of 1000.

The exhibition featured several small-scale drawings produced with oil stick and coal dust, which repeat repeat the phrase “negro sunshine,” a fragment of text from Gertude Stein’s 1909 novel “Three Lives.”