<I>Malik I</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1994
name: label: Created by
content: Sylvia Snowden, American, born 1942
notes: label: Caption
content: Sylvia Snowden is an American abstract artist known for her richly textured and colorful expressionist paintings. Born in North Carolina, Snowden studied under David Driscoll at Howard University and has resided in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, DC since the 1970s. The title of this print, Malik I, is an homage to her son, Malik Butler. In 1993, 18-year-old Butler was shot and killed not far from the family's home. His murder remains unsolved.
label: Description
content: An abstract color lithograph with a composition predominately of bright blue. The blue appears in both swirls and precise, narrow strokes and is surrounded by blooms of color in purple, black, red, and yellow. The yellow appears in an arcing swath along the left side, becoming green where it intersects with the blue. Most of the composition extends to the edge of the paper, with some space left along the left edge. Handwritten in the bottom left corner in graphite is [14/100 “Malik I”] with [Sylvia Snowden 10/94] at the bottom right.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Abstraction
label: Topic
content: Art
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Juanita and Melvin Hardy
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2020.58.9
objectType: label: Type
content: lithographs
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Sylvia Snowden
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 29 3/4 × 21 1/2 in. (75.6 × 54.6 cm)