Betye Saar: Call and Response

Betye Saar
Sketchbook page for A Call to Arms, 1997
Ballpoint pen on paper
Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. © Betye Saar.
photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Betye Saar
Middleton A. Harris (1908–1977)
The Black Book
First edition
New York: Random House, 1974

Betye Saar
A Secretary to the Spirits, 1975–78
Collage of cut printed papers and fabric, with matte
and metallic paint and ink stamps, on laminated
paperboard
The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of the Modern and Contemporary Collectors Committee, 2017, 2017.306:1 . © Betye Saar.
Photography by Janny Chiu, 2018.

Betye Saar
Pocadonia, 1975–78
Collage of cut and torn printed papers and Letraset border tape, with porous point pen, ink wash, watercolor, and ink stamps, on laminated paperboard
The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of the Modern and Contemporary Collectors Committee, 2017, 2017.306:2r. © Betye Saar.
Photography by Janny Chiu, 2020.

Betye Saar
Sky Diving, 1975–78
Collage of cut printed papers, with porous point pen, watercolor, and ink stamps, on laminated paperboard
The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of the Modern and Contemporary Collectors Committee, 2017, 2017.306:4r. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California.© Betye Saar.
Photography by Janny Chiu, 2020.

Betye Saar
Tea Dancer Turns Thirty-Nine, 1977–78
Collage of cut and torn printed papers, with porous point pen, watercolor, acrylic paint, and ink stamps, on laminated paperboard
The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of the Modern and Contemporary Collectors Committee, 2017, 2017.306:6r. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California.© Betye Saar.
Photography by Janny Chiu, 2020.

Betye Saar
Memo to Stevie Wonder, 1975–78
Collage of cut printed papers, with watercolor, ink stamps, and artist’s thumbprint in ink, on laminated paperboard
The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of the Modern and Contemporary Collectors Committee, 2017, 2017.306:7r. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California.© Betye Saar.
Photography by Janny Chiu, 2020.

Betye Saar
The Return of Julian the Apostate to Rome, 1975–78
Collage of cut and torn printed papers and fabric, with porous point pen, watercolor, and acrylic matte medium, on laminated paperboard
The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of the Modern and Contemporary Collectors Committee, 2017, 2017.306:3r. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California.© Betye Saar.
Photography by Janny Chiu, 2020.

Betye Saar
Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
A Secretary to the Spirits
Illustrated by Betye Saar
First edition
New York; London; Lagos: NOK Publishers, 1978
The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of the Modern and Contemporary Collectors Committee, 2017