Betye Saar: Call and Response

Betye Saar
Sketchbook page for Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time, 14 January 1998 (facsimile)
Ballpoint pen and collage on paper
Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. © Betye Saar.
photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Betye Saar
Woke Up This Morning, the Blues was in My Bed, 2019
Metal cot, glass bottles, neon, and coal
Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. © Betye Saar.
Robert Wedemeyer

Betye Saar
Sketchbook pages for Woke Up This Morning, the Blues was in My Bed:
24 February 2001 (facsimile)
Ballpoint pen and colored pencil on paper

14 August 2001 (facsimile)
Ballpoint pen and colored pencil on paper

8 March 2010
Marker, colored pencil, and wash on paper

22 May 2013 (facsimile)
Ballpoint pen on paper pasted into sketchbook
Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. © Betye Saar.
photo © Museum Associates/LACMA