Double Dare
Artist
William Thomas Williams
American, born 1942
Date1984
MediumAcrylic and precipitated chalk on canvas
Dimensions84 x 54 1/2 in. (213.4 x 138.4 cm)
Frame: 86 x 56 1/2 in. (218.4 x 143.5 cm)
Frame: 86 x 56 1/2 in. (218.4 x 143.5 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object number91.9
On View
On viewIntrospectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Descent (exhibition catalogue) (Los Angeles: California Afro-American Museum, 1989), illus. (b-w) fig. 33.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 285.
V.B. [Virginia Burden], "William T. Williams and Double Dare." North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 1994), 10-11, illus. (b-w) 10.
Virginia Burden, entry for Double Dare, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 248, illus. (color).
Chuck Twardy. "Gifts to ourselves." Raleigh: The News and Observer, "What's Up" insert (December 12, 1997): mentioned 16.
Exhibition HistoryWinston-Salem, NC, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, "William T. Williams," June 8- July 21, 1985, no. 14, illus. (b-w).
Los Angeles, CA, California Afro-American Museum, "Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Descent," February 11-September 30, 1989, unnumbered, illus. (b-w) fig. 33.
Bronx, NY, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1989.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Art for the People: Recent Museum Acquisitions," September 14, 1997-January 4, 1998. (Closing date extended to January 25, 1998)
Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, to be displayed with the permanent collection as part of the inaugural exhibition, April 21, 2002-March 30, 2003
Savannah, GA, Telfair Museum of Art's Jepson Center for the Arts, "Fast Forward: Three Decades of Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," January 23-April 27, 2008.
Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "Bearden to Ruscha: Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 22, 2008-May 17, 2009.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “To Be Young: Coming of Age in the Contemporary,” April 3, 2021–February 6, 2022.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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