Artist Monograph

Alison Saar, American

American, born 1956

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Woodcut	17	89.5%
Printmaking	1	5.3%
Etching	1	5.3%

Production by Decade

16

1990s

2

2010s

1

2020s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	13	72.2%
Medium (30–100 cm)	3	16.7%
Large (1–3 m)	2	11.1%

Range: 19.5 cm → 121.0 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1993	1
1994	1
1995	1
1998	13
2020	2
2024	1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 19 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Heart and Sole Print Acc. 689.1993	1993	Etching and aquatint with chine collé	composition: 15 13/16 × 7" (40.2 × 17.8 cm); sheet: 22 1/4 × 14" (56.5 × 35.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Ralph E. Shikes Fund and Purchase
Stride Piano Print Acc. 302.1994	1993	Woodcut	composition: 21 5/8 × 14 5/8" (55 × 37.1 cm); sheet: 26 9/16 × 20 1/2" (67.4 × 52 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Business Committee for the Arts, Inc.
Ulysses Print Acc. 741.1995	1994	Woodcut	composition: 47 5/8 × 17 11/16" (121 × 45 cm); sheet: 51 × 23" (129.5 × 58.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John B. Turner Fund
Arcade Illustrated Book Acc. 119.1998.1-12	1996	Illustrated book with one woodcut and eleven halftone prints	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dan Redmon
Plate (between pages 16 and 17) from Arcade Illustrated Book Acc. 119.1998.4	1996	Halftone reproduction from an illustrated book with one woodcut and eleven halftone reproductions	composition (irreg.): 8 1/16 × 6 1/8" (20.4 × 15.6 cm); page: 9 × 7 1/16" (22.8 × 18 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dan Redmon
Plate (between pages 24 and 25) from Arcade Illustrated Book Acc. 119.1998.6	1996	Halftone reproduction from an illustrated book with one woodcut and eleven halftone reproductions	composition (irreg.): 8 1/16 × 6" (20.5 × 15.2 cm); page: 9 × 7 1/16" (22.8 × 18 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dan Redmon
Plate (between pages 32 and 33) from Arcade Illustrated Book Acc. 119.1998.8	1996	Halftone reproduction from an illustrated book with one woodcut and eleven halftone reproductions	composition (irreg.): 7 15/16 × 6 3/16" (20.2 × 15.7 cm); page: 9 × 7 1/16" (22.8 × 18 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dan Redmon
Plate (between pages 40 and 41) from Arcade Illustrated Book Acc. 119.1998.10	1996	Halftone reproduction from an illustrated book with one woodcut and eleven halftone reproductions	composition (irreg.): 7 11/16 × 5 7/8" (19.5 × 15 cm); page: 9 × 7 1/16" (22.8 × 18 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dan Redmon
Plate (between pages 48 and 49) from Arcade Illustrated Book Acc. 119.1998.12	1996	Halftone reproduction from an illustrated book with one woodcut and eleven halftone reproductions	composition (irreg.): 7 13/16 × 5 5/8" (19.9 × 14.3 cm); page: 9 × 7 1/16" (22.8 × 18 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dan Redmon
Plate (page 12) from Arcade Illustrated Book Acc. 119.1998.3	1996	Halftone reproduction from an illustrated book with one woodcut and eleven halftone reproductions	composition (irreg.): 8 1/16 × 5 11/16" (20.4 × 14.5 cm); page: 9 × 7 1/16" (22.8 × 18 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dan Redmon
Plate (page 20) from Arcade Illustrated Book Acc. 119.1998.5	1996	Halftone reproduction from an illustrated book with one woodcut and eleven halftone reproductions	composition (irreg.): 7 7/8 × 6" (20 × 15.2 cm); page: 9 × 7 1/16" (22.8 × 18 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dan Redmon
Plate (page 29) from Arcade Illustrated Book Acc. 119.1998.7	1996	Halftone reproduction from an illustrated book with one woodcut and eleven halftone reproductions	composition (irreg.): 7 7/8 × 5 7/8" (20 × 15 cm); page: 9 × 7 1/16" (22.8 × 18 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dan Redmon
Plate (page 36) from Arcade Illustrated Book Acc. 119.1998.9	1996	Halftone reproduction from an illustrated book with one woodcut and eleven halftone reproductions	composition (irreg.): 8 1/16 × 6 3/16" (20.5 × 15.7 cm); page: 9 × 7 1/16" (22.8 × 18 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dan Redmon
Plate (page 45) from Arcade Illustrated Book Acc. 119.1998.11	1996	Halftone reproduction from an illustrated book with one woodcut and eleven halftone reproductions	composition (irreg.): 7 7/8 × 5 13/16" (20 × 14.8 cm); page: 9 × 7 1/16" (22.8 × 18 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dan Redmon
Plate (page 7) from Arcade Illustrated Book Acc. 119.1998.2	1996	Halftone reproduction from an illustrated book with one woodcut and eleven halftone reproductions	composition (irreg.): 8 × 5 3/4" (20.3 × 14.6 cm); page: 9 × 7 1/16" (22.8 × 18 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dan Redmon
Supplementary print from Arcade Illustrated Book Acc. 119.1998.1	1996	Woodcut from an illustrated book with one woodcut and eleven halftone reproductions of woodcuts	composition and sheet (irreg.): 6 9/16 × 8 7/8" (16.7 × 22.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dan Redmon
Breach Print Acc. 123.2020	2017	Woodcut on vintage linen seed sacks	composition (irreg.): 44 3/4 × 19 11/16" (113.6 × 50 cm); sheet (irreg.): 47 3/16 × 19 11/16" (119.9 × 50 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Endowment for Prints
Stanch Print Acc. 124.2020	2017	Woodcut on vintage linen seed sacks	composition (irreg.): 38 13/16 × 20 1/4" (98.6 × 51.5 cm); sheet (irreg.): 44 9/16 × 20 1/4" (113.2 × 51.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Endowment for Prints
Kindred Illustrated Book Acc. 408.2024	2024	Illustrated book with 344 pages of letterpress text, 10 linoleum prints and printed endsheets; hardcover, bound with cloth spine and debossed cover, and printed slipcase	book, closed: 9 3/4 × 6 13/16 × 1 11/16" (24.8 × 17.3 × 4.3 cm) slipcase: 10 1/16 × 6 15/16 × 2 1/16" (25.5 × 17.7 × 5.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (by exchange)