The Cotton Bowl

Artist Hank Willis Thomas American, born 1976

Date2011

MediumDigital C-print

Dimensions65 x 96 in. (165.1 x 243.8 cm)
Frame: 66 x 97 x 2 1/4 in. (167.6 x 246.4 x 5.7 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LineGift of the North Carolina Museum of Art Contemporaries

Object number2012.19

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Not on view

ProvenanceCreated 2011; collection of the artist, Brooklyn; [Jack Shainman Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 2012.Published References“Contemporaries Purchase Art for Museum,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 2013), 36, illus. (color) 37.

Michael Gaspeny, "Three Barbs in the Cotton of Interpretation" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 196.Exhibition HistoryRidgefield, CT, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, "Strange Fruit," July 15 - September 30, 2012, discussed and listed in exhibition brochure (unpaginated) and illus. (color) cover. Object Rights Statement

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