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Betye Saar: Call and Response

  • 029. I’ll Bend But I Will Not Break

    Betye Saar
    I’ll Bend But I Will Not Break, 1998
    Ironing board with printed images and text, flat iron, chain, bedsheet with appliqués, wood clothespins, and rope
    Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Lynda and Stewart Resnick through the 2018 Collectors Committee. Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California.© Betye Saar.
    photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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  • 030. Sketchbook pages for I’ll Bend But I Will Not Break

    Betye Saar
    Sketchbook pages for I’ll Bend But I Will Not Break
    3 January (right) and 29 January (left) 1998
    Ballpoint pen on paper
    Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. © Betye Saar.
    photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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  • 031. Still Ticking

    Betye Saar
    Still Ticking, 2005
    Clocks, wood, paint, and white chalk
    Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. © Betye Saar.
    Brian Forrest

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  • 032. Sketchbook page for Still Ticking

    Betye Saar
    Sketchbook page for Still Ticking, 23 March 2004
    Marker on paper
    Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. © Betye Saar.
    photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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  • 033. Page from U.S.A. sketchbook, Santa Fe, Museum of International Folk Art, 1988–91

    Betye Saar
    Page from U.S.A. sketchbook, Santa Fe, Museum of International Folk Art, 1988–91
    Watercolor and ballpoint pen on paper
    Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. © Betye Saar.
    photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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  • 033. Travel Sketchbooks

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  • 034. Page from California sketchbook

    Betye Saar
    Page from California sketchbook, 1975
    Acrylic and collage on paper
    Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. © Betye Saar.
    photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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  • 035. Page from Brazil/Los Angeles sketchbook

    Betye Saar
    Page from Brazil/Los Angeles sketchbook, 1983/88
    Collage and gouache on paper
    Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. © Betye Saar.
    photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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  • 036. Page from Oaxaca sketchbook

    Betye Saar
    Page from Oaxaca sketchbook, April 1985
    Acrylic, gouache, and collage on paper
    Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. © Betye Saar.
    photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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  • 037. Spread from Mexico sketchbook

    Betye Saar
    Spread from Mexico sketchbook, June 1975
    Gouache, watercolor, and pencil on paper
    Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. © Betye Saar.
    photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

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