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Go Down Moses
Go Down Moses

Go Down Moses

Artist Ruth Starr Rose American, 1887–1965
Date1939
MediumLithograph on paper
Dimensions9 15/16 × 12 3/4 in. (25.2 × 32.4 cm)
frame: 19 × 23 1/8 × 1 1/2 in. (48.3 × 58.7 × 3.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift in memory of Katherine Clark Pendleton Arrington by her niece, Sylbert Pendleton
Object numberG.70.34.4/97
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated United States, 1939; collection of the artist. Sylbert Pendleton, Raleigh, NC; given to NCMA, 1970.Published ReferencesNorth Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 11, nos. 1 and 2 (December 1971), one of several prints listed as a group on p. 68.Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Art for the People: The Foundation of the North Carolina Museum of Art, 1924–1945,” November 27, 2019–February 9, 2020.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.
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