Artist Monograph

Howardena Pindell, American

American, born 1943

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Other Media	7	50%
Drawing	2	14.3%
Photography	1	7.1%
Video	1	7.1%
Lithography	1	7.1%
Printmaking	1	7.1%
Etching	1	7.1%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	11	78.6%
Painting & Sculpture	1	7.1%
Media and Performance	1	7.1%
Photography	1	7.1%

Production by Decade

3

1970s

10

1980s

1

2010s

Classification Types

Illustrated Book — 7
Print — 2
Drawing — 2
Painting — 1
Video — 1
Photograph — 1

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	9	69.2%
Medium (30–100 cm)	3	23.1%
Monumental (> 3 m)	1	7.7%

Range: 5.5 cm → 320.0 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1974	2
1976	1
1980	1
1989	7
2008	1
2014	1
2015	1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 14 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Untitled #4 Drawing Acc. 302.1974	1973	Ink on punched-and-pasted paper on graph paper	22 1/4 x 17 5/8" (56.5 x 44.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund
Untitled #7 Drawing Acc. 117.1974	1973	Ink on punched-and-pasted paper, talcum powder, and thread on paper	10 1/8 x 8 3/8" (25.9 x 21.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Lily Auchincloss
Video Drawing: Baseball Photograph Acc. 276.1976	August 1975	Chromogenic print	4 5/8 × 6 7/8" (11.7 × 16.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Free, White and 21 Video Acc. 585.2008	1980	Standard-definition video (color, sound)	12:15 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, and Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis
Kyoto: Positive/Negative Print Acc. 603.1980	1980	Lithograph and etching, with hole-punched paper dot collage additions	composition 26 5/8 x 20 5/8" (67.6 x 52.4 cm); sheet 26 5/8 x 20 5/8" (67.6 x 52.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
Memory: Past Painting Acc. 549.2014	1980-81	Acrylic, dye, paper, thread, tempera, photographic transfer, glitter, and powder on canvas	126 x 84" (320 x 213.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds and gift of The Friends of Education of The Museum of Modern Art
Art Crow/Jim Crow Illustrated Book Acc. 152.1989.1-6	1988	Illustrated book with four photogravure and letterpress and two letterpress	page 6 15/16 x 6 15/16" (17 x 17.7 cm) Prints: various dimensions. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mrs. Henry I. Cobb and Joanne M. Stern Fund
Double page plate (folios 10 and 11) from Art Crow/Jim Crow Illustrated Book Acc. 152.1989.4	1988	Photogravure and letterpress	irreg. composition 3 9/16 x 9 7/8" (9.1 x 25.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mrs. Henry I. Cobb and Joanne M. Stern Fund
Double page plate (folios 12 and 13) from Art Crow/Jim Crow Illustrated Book Acc. 152.1989.5	1988	Photogravure and letterpress	irreg. composition 2 15/16 x 9 5/8" (7.6 x 24.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mrs. Henry I. Cobb and Joanne M. Stern Fund
Double page plate (folios 4 and 5) from Art Crow/Jim Crow Illustrated Book Acc. 152.1989.1	1988	Photogravure and letterpress	irreg. composition 2 x 9 1/16" (5.1 x 23 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mrs. Henry I. Cobb and Joanne M. Stern Fund
Double page plate (folios 6 and 7) from Art Crow/Jim Crow Illustrated Book Acc. 152.1989.2	1988	Photogravure and letterpress	irreg. composition 2 3/8 x 10 1/8" (6.1 x 25.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mrs. Henry I. Cobb and Joanne M. Stern Fund
Plate (folio 14) from Art Crow/Jim Crow Illustrated Book Acc. 152.1989.6	1988	Letterpress	irreg. composition 5/16 x 2 3/16" (0.8 x 5.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mrs. Henry I. Cobb and Joanne M. Stern Fund
Plate (folio 9) from Art Crow/Jim Crow Illustrated Book Acc. 152.1989.3	1988	Letterpress	irreg. composition 3/8 x 2 3/16" (0.9 x 5.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Mrs. Henry I. Cobb and Joanne M. Stern Fund
Constellations Print Acc. 1709.2015	2015	Etching	plate: 17 7/8 × 17 7/8" (45.4 × 45.4 cm); sheet: 29 3/4 × 22" (75.5 × 55.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the artist