The Frances Young Tang
Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
at Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Phone: 518-580-8080
We’re closed now.
Hours: 12 – 5 pm
Plan your visit
Adding item...
Collection Artwork
A black and white photograph of three Black women with afros protesting with pro-natural hair signs outside a wig store while a few people watch from nearby on the sidewalk.
Artist
Kwame Brathwaite (Brooklyn, New York, 1938 – 2023, New York, New York)
Title
Untitled (Wigs Parisian protest)
Creation date
1963, printed 2018
Materials
archival pigment print
Dimensions
paper size: 17 x 17 in.
image size: 15 x 15 in.
Credit Line
Tang purchase
Place of Creation
photographed outside 151 West 125th Street, Harlem, New York, New York, United States, North America
Accession Number
2018.24.8
Edition
AP (edition of 10 + 1 AP)
Object Type
Photographs

Ongoing Research

Research on our collection is ongoing. If you have resources you’d like to share, please contact Associate Curator Rebecca McNamara.
Activism
Thematic Collections
See 51 artworks
GWS202: Lived Feminism: Engagement and Praxis
Skidmore Courses
See 14 artworks
EN378: Speculative Nonfiction
Skidmore Courses
See 48 artworks
i
Pattern as of Apr 23, 10:12:02 am
daily on-campus page views: 198
daily off-campus page views: 420
current wind in Saratoga Springs: 5.32 mph, SSW
Website design: Linked by Air