Betye Saar

Betye Saar
Dɔɣim yuli	Betye Irene Brown
Los Angeles, Silimin gɔli July 30, 1926 (run 98)
O ya Tiŋgbaŋ	America
Residence	Los Angeles
African Americans ^(en)
A ya balli	Silmiinsili
Ba	Jefferson Maze Brown
Ma	Beatrice Lillian Parson
Paɣa/yidana	Richard Saar ^(en)  (1952 - 1970)
Bia	view Lezley Saar ^(en) Alison Saar ^(en) Tracye Saar-Cavanaugh ^(en)
Education
Shikuru shɛli o ni chaŋ	University of California, Los Angeles ^(en) bachelor's degree ^(en) Pasadena City College ^(en) California State University, Long Beach ^(en) (1958 - 1962) Master of Fine Arts ^(en) : visual art education ^(en)
Bala yɛlibu, sabbu bee buɣisibu	Silmiinsili
Tuma
Tuma	Pɛnta-pɛnta, assemblage artist ^(en) , printmaker ^(en) , graphic artist ^(en) , installation artist ^(en) , sculptor ^(en) , jewelry designer ^(en) ni artist ^(en)
Tuma shee	Los Angeles ni Long Beach
Ŋun kpuɣi o tuma	University of California, Los Angeles ^(en)
Pin' shɛŋa o ni dee	view Guggenheim Fellowship  (1991) Anonymous Was A Woman Award  (2012) Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award  (1989)
Laɣingu	Black Arts Movement ^(en)
Nuu tuunbaŋsim balibu	figurative art ^(en)
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Betye Irene Saar (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la silimiin July biɛɣ'pihita dali yuuni 1926) nyɛla Americanima nucheeni baŋda ka niriba pam mi o ka di nyɛla tun'shɛŋa o ni tumassemblage zuɣu. Saar nyɛla lihigu lahabalitira n-ti pahi "printmaker". Saar nyɛla ŋun daa be Black Arts Movement yuuni 1970s.^[1] O tuma nyɛla din jandi siyaasa tali dama o nyɛla ŋun tooi ŋmɛri African Americanima tuma din be chaŋ viɛnyɛla nangbankpeeni ; Saar nyɛla niriba pam ni mi so ka di nyɛla kpaŋmaŋ shɛli o ni daa niŋ anti-Black racism din be United States zuɣu.^[2]

Piligu biɛhigu, shikuru baŋsim n-ti pahi

Betye Saar nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so ka boli o Betye Irene Brown silimiin goli July biɛɣ'pihita dali yuuni 1926, o lammba nyɛ Jefferson Maze Brown mini Beatrice Lillian Parson ka bɛ be Los Angeles, California.^[3] O lammba maa zaa nyɛla ban chaŋ University of California, Los Angeles, ni ka bɛ daa nya taba. Saar nyɛla ŋun daa be Los Angeles o bilim saha.^[3] Din daa niŋ ka o ba kpi nyaaŋa yuuni 1931, Saar mini o ma, tizodoo n-ti pahi tizopaɣa nyɛla ban daa labi o ba ma Irene Hannah Maze sani Watts neighborhood din be Los Angeles. Daŋ maa daa lahi labi Pasadena, California n-ti be Saar's ma tizopaɣa Hatte Parson Keys mini o yidana Robert E. Keys sani.^[4]

O ni daa zoorina, Saar nyɛla ŋun daa maani binshɛŋa din saɣim.^[5] O collagɛ shikuru nyɛla din daa piligi Pasadena City College^[6] ka daa tuɣi o bɔhimbu University of California, Los Angeles din daa niŋ ka o deegi "tuition award" nyaaŋa.^[4] Saar daa nya B.A. in design yuuni 1947.^[5] O daa lahi chaŋ California State University, Long Beach, University of Southern California, California State University, Northridge n-ti pahi American Film Institute.^[7] O nyɛla ŋun daa kuli Richard Saar ka bɛ daa dɔɣi bi'puɣiŋsi ata: Tracye, Alison n-ti pahi Lezley.^[8]

Artistic career

Early work

Saar nyɛla ŋun daa piligi o zaɣ'kuritali tali tuma ni niriba biɛhisuŋ wuhibu pɔi ka daa bɔhim nucheeni baŋsim.^[9]

Solo exhibitions

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• 1973 California State University, Los Angeles, California.
• 1975 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.
• 1976 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut and Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, New York.
• 1977 Baun-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, California and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.
• 1979 Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
• 1980 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York.
• 1981 Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, California and Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, New York.
• 1982 Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California.
• 1983 Women's Art Movement, Adelaide, Australia and Canberra School of Art, Canberra Connecticut, Australia.
• 1984 California, Los Angeles, California and Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1987 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• 1988 Taichung Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan.
• 1989 City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand and Art space, Auckland, New Zealand
• 1990 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
• 1991 Objects Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
• 1992 The Ritual Journey. Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Connecticut.
• 1993 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California.
• 1994 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California.
• 1996 Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa and The Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State College, Pennsylvania and de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California and Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.
• 1997 Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington.
• 1998 Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, New York and Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, California and California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California.
• 1999 University of New Mexico Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, Colorado and The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan.
• 2000 Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Georgia and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, New York.
• 2002 Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., Princeton, NJ
• 2005 University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan^[10]
• 2006 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
• 2014 Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, California
• 2016 Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona^[11]
• 2016 Fondazione Prada, Milan Italy^[12]
• 2016 Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, California
• 2017 Craft and Folk Art Museum (now Craft Contemporary), Los Angeles^[12]
• 2018 Roberts Projects, Culver City, California^[13]
• 2019 New York Historical Society, New York, NY
• 2019 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY^[14]
• 2019 LACMA, Los Angeles, CA^{[15][16][17][18]}
• 2020 Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY^[19]
• 2021 Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX^[20]
• 2022 Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL^[21]

Awards and honors

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• 1984 and 1974: National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship
• 1990: 22nd Annual Artist Award, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
• 1990: J. Paul Getty Fund for the Visual Arts Fellowship
• 1991: Honorary Doctorate Degree: California College of the Arts
• 1991: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation^[22]
• 1992: Honorary Doctorate Degrees: Otis College of Art and Design and San Francisco Art Institute
• 1992: James Van Der Zee Award, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• 1993: Distinguished Artist Award, Fresno Art Museum
• 1995: Honorary Doctorate Degrees: California Institute of the Arts and Massachusetts College of Art
• 1997: The Visual Artists Award, The Flintridge Foundation, Pasadena, California
• 2014: Edward MacDowell Medal^[23]
• 2020: Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis Köln^[24]

Notable works in public collections

• Aries Nymph (1966), University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst, Massachusetts^[25]
• A Siege of Sirens (1966), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Museum of Modern Art, New York^[26][27]
• Vision of El Cremo (1967), Palmer Museum of Art, State College, Pennsylvania^[28]
• Black Girl's Window (1969), Museum of Modern Art, New York^[29]
• Gris-Gris Box (1972), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles^[30]
• The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (1972), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California^[31]
• It's Only A Matter of Time (1974), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC^[32]
• The Time Inbetween (1974), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art^[33]
• Indigo Mercy (1975), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York^[34]
• The Birds and The Beasts Were There (1976), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC^[35]
• Dark Erotic Dream (1976), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC^[36]
• Keep for Old Memoirs (1976), Museum of Modern Art, New York^[37]
• Samadhi (1977), High Museum of Art, Atlanta^[38]
• Twilight Awakening (1978), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC^[39]
• Window of Ancient Sirens (1979), Studio Museum in Harlem, New York^[40]
• Dat Ol' Black Magic (1981), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC^[41]
• Ball of Fire (1985), Philadelphia Museum of Art^[42]
• Cryptic Confessions, The Question (1988), Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida^[43]
• The Differences Between (1989), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston^[44]
• House of Ancient Memory (1989), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis^[45]
• La Luz (1989), Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York^[46]
• Wishing for Winter (1989), Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC^[47]
• Ancestral Spirit Chair (1992), Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts^[48]
• Gris Gris Guardian (1990-1993), Los Angeles County Museum of Art^[49]
• The Trickster (1994), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC^[50]
• Whitey's Way (1970-1996), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York^[51]
• Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time (1998), Minneapolis Institute of Art and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC^[52][53]
• I'll Bend But I Will Not Break (1998), Los Angeles County Museum of Art^[54]
• The Long Memory (1998), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia and Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts^[55][56]
• Maid-Rite (Mask Eyes) (1998), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia^[57]
• Mother and Children in Blue (1998), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York^[58]
• Wot's Dat (1998) from the series Workers + Warriors: The Return of Aunt Jemima, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York^[59]

Kundivihira

1. Miranda, Carolina A. "For Betye Saar, there's no dwelling on the past", Los Angeles Times, Retrieved July 28, 2018.
2. Betye Saar (en-us).
3. "Betye Saar | American artist and educator" (en). Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Betye-Saar.
4. Betye, Saar (2016). Betye Saar: Uneasy Dancer. Mainetti, Mario,, Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy). Milan. ISBN 9788887029673. OCLC 959419696.
5. Tani, Ellen Y. (2016-12-13). "Keeping Time in the Hands of Betye Saar: Betye Saar" (in en). American Quarterly 68 (4): 1081–1109. DOI:10.1353/aq.2016.0082. ISSN 1080-6490.
6. Miranda, Carolina A. (April 29, 2016). For Betye Saar, there's no dwelling on the past; the almost-90-year-old artist has too much future to think about.
7. Carpenter, Jane H. (2004). Betye Saar. Pomegranate Communications. ISBN 978-0764923494.
8. Art Now and Then: Betye Saar (September 2015).
9. Tani, Ellen Y. (2016-12-13). "Keeping Time in the Hands of Betye Saar: Betye Saar" (in en). American Quarterly 68 (4): 1081–1109. DOI:10.1353/aq.2016.0082. ISSN 1080-6490.
10. Photo: UMMA presents "Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment".
11. Joyce, Erin (2016-02-26). Six Decades of Betye Saar's Personal, Political, and Mystical Art (en-US).
12. Slenske, Michael (2017). "Acquisitions & Mergers: A new exhibition at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles is the latest showcase for the powerful work of assemblage artist Betye Saar". Magazine Antiques 184: 84–91.
13. "Betye Saar at Roberts Projects, Los Angeles", ARTnews, November 16, 2018.
14. Betye Saar: The Legends of Black Girl's Window | MoMA (en).
15. "Betye Saar: Call and Response", LACMA.
16. "Museums in L.A. this week: Betye Saar exhibit at LACMA and more", Los Angeles Times.
17. Ollman, Leah (2019). "Betye Saar in the Studio". Art in America 107: 86–95.
18. Baca, April (2020). "On Dis/Appearance and Familiar Objects: Betye Saar at LACMA". Art Journal 79 (2): 114–116. DOI:10.1080/00043249.2020.1750852.
19. Betye Saar: Call and Response (en) (2020-01-29).
20. Betye Saar: Call and Response September 25, 2021 - January 2, 2022 | Exhibition. Nasher Sculpture Center (2021).
21. Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight (2021).
22. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellows - Betye Saar", John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Retrieved 28 July 2018.
23. "MacDowell Medalists", MacDowell Colony, Retrieved 28 July 2018.
24. Museum Luwdwig - Bisherige Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger:
25. Aries Nymph. University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
26. A Siege of Sirens. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
27. A Siege of Sirens. Museum of Modern Art.
28. Vision of El Cremo.
29. Black Girl's Window. Museum of Modern Art.
30. Gris-Gris Box. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
31. The Liberation of Aunt Jemima. University of California, Berkeley.
32. "It's Only A Matter of Time". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian (Smithsonian Institution). https://hirshhorn.si.edu//collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm%3Ahmsg_86.4105.
33. The Time Inbetween. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
34. Indigo Mercy.
35. "The Birds and The Beasts Were There". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian (Smithsonian Institution). https://hirshhorn.si.edu//collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm%3Ahmsg_86.4103.
36. "Dark Erotic Dream". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | Smithsonian (Smithsonian Institution). https://hirshhorn.si.edu//collection/artwork/?edanUrl=edanmdm%3Ahmsg_86.4104.
37. Keep for Old Memoirs. Museum of Modern Art.
38. Samadhi. High Museum of Art.
39. Twilight Awakening. National Gallery of Art (1978).
40. Window of Ancient Sirents.
41. Dat Ol' Black Magic. National Gallery of Art (1981).
42. Ball of Fire. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
43. Cryptic Confessions, The Question.
44. The Differences Between. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
45. House of Ancient Memory.
46. La Luz. Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute.
47. Wishing for Winter. Smithsonian Institution.
48. Ancestral Spirit Chair. Smith College.
49. I'll Bend But I Will Not Break. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
50. The Trickster. National Gallery of Art (1994).
51. Whitey's Way. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
52. Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time. Minneapolis Institute of Art.
53. Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time. National Gallery of Art (1998).
54. I'll Bend But I Will Not Break. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
55. The Long Memory. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (28 December 2014).
56. The Long Memory. Smith College.
57. The Long Memory. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (28 December 2014).
58. Mother and Children in Blue. Whitney Museum of American Art.
59. Wot's Dat. Cornell University.

Further reading

• Paysour, Fleur. "Wonders of the House of Saar." International Review of African American Art vol. 20, no. 3 (2005), pp. 51–3
• Willette, Jeanne S. M. "Stitching Lives: Fabric in the Art of Betye Saar." Fiberarts vol. 23 (March/April 1997), pp. 44–81
• Van Proyen, M. "A Conversation with Betye and Alison Saar" [interview]. Artweek v. 22 (August 15, 1991) pp. 3+
• Etra, John. "Family Ties." ARTnews vol. 90 (May 1991), pp. 128–33.
• Betye, Saar; Steward, James Christen (2005). Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment. Ann Arbor; Berkeley: University of Michigan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0520246621. OCLC 475795090.
• Farris, Phoebe. "Saar, Betye" [entry in] Women Artists of Color: A Biocritical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas. Phoebe Farris, ed. Westport, Connecticut: 1999. pp. 333–339. Entry includes biography, selected exhibitions, 41-item bibliography, and biographical essay. Tɛmplet:Isbn Tɛmplet:Oclc
• Jones, Kellie et al. Now dig this! : art & Black Los Angeles, 1960–1980. 2011. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2011. Tɛmplet:Isbn Tɛmplet:Oclc
• Jones, Kellie. South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
• Jane H Carpenter with Betye Saar, The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art: Volume II.
• Betye Saar, Extending the Frozen Movement.
• Saar, Betye; Lovell, Whitfield; Saar-Cavanaugh, Tracye; Sims, Lowery Stokes; Ulmer, Sean M. (2006). Betye Saar : Migrations, Transformations: September 8-October 28, 2006. New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. ISBN 978-1930416376. OCLC 75525110.
• LA Times.
• Betye Saar, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima 1972 (2011-09-28).

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• Betye Saar at Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, CA