Momolou Speaks

Artist John Biggers (American, 1924 - 2001)

Date1966

MediumConté crayon

DimensionsSheet: 23 15/16 x 18 1/16 in. (60.8 x 45.9 cm)

Credit LinePurchased in memory of Charles V. Hallman (Class of 1928) with funds provided by a bequest from Mabel P. Hansen

Object number99.47

Collections

ClassificationsWork on Paper

Object NameDrawing

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

Exhibition HistoryThe Art of Remembering: A Selection of Gifts from 1974–2020, Palmer Museum of Art, August 26–December 18, 2022 The Web of Life: John Biggers and the Power of Pedagogy, Palmer Museum of Art, August 18–December 15, 2019 The Art of John Biggers: View from the Upper Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 2–August 28, 1995; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, October 15, 1995–January 14, 1996; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, May 19–August 25, 1996; Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA, October 6–December 20, 1996; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, January 24–April 20, 1997 Five Decades of Drawings by John Biggers, Palmer Museum of Art, February 2–June 27, 1999ProvenanceCollection of Hazel and John Biggers.Published ReferencesFive Decades of Drawings by John Biggers (brochure) (University Park, PA: Palmer Museum of Art, 1999), n.p. (no. 17). Alvia J. Wardlaw, The Art of John Biggers: View from the Upper Room (exh. cat.) (Houston, TX: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1995), 112 (no. 25), 146 (ill.). Lorenz Graham, I, Momolu (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1966), 227 (ill.).