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Tippy Toes

Artist Alison Saar American, born 1956, Los Angeles

Date2007

MediumWood and cast bronze

Dimensions59 x 23 x 23 in. (149.9 x 58.4 x 58.4 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineGift of the Friends of African and African American Art

Object number2008.2

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ProvenanceCreated 2007; collection of the artist; [Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 2007.Published ReferencesKinsey Katchka, entry for Tippy Toes, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 562, illus. (color) 563.

Kathryn A. Wat, Revival: National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC: June 23-September 10, 2017 (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2017), illus. (color).

Sally Greene, "Lydia," Southern Cultures 30, no. 2 (Summer 2024), illus. (color) 58.Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Phyllis Kind Gallery, “Alison Saar: Wither,” November 15–December 29, 2007.

Washington, DC, National Museum of Women in the Arts, “Revival,” June 23–September 10, 2017, cat. p. 34, illus. (color) 35, and illus. (color detail) front cover.

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

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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