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- Title
- House of Ancient Memory
- Artist
- Betye Saar
- Date
- 1989
- Dimensions
- Installed 61.25 × 19.75 × 13.25 inches
- Materials
- wood, paint, plastic, mirrors, embroidered fabric, feathers, metal, glass perfume bottles, painted and lacquered wood table
- Location
- Not on view
Object Details
- Type
- Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1995.9.1-.3
- Inscriptions
- In black marker underside of altar top on L “Betye Saar”; in gold marker on back edge of the underside of altar base “House of Ancient Memory Betye Saar 1989”; in black marker underside of table top, TL “Base for/House of Ancient Memory/Betye Saar 1989”; In gold marker on back edge of the underside of altar base “House of Ancient Memory Betye Saar 1989”; in black marker underside of table top, TL “Base for/House of Ancient Memory/Betye Saar 1989”
- Credit Line
- Butler Family Fund, 1995
- Object Copyright
- Copyright retained by the artist