<I>Mama Can Sing</I>
date: label: Date
content: 2004
name: label: Created by
content: Faith Ringgold, American, 1930 - 2024
notes: label: Caption
content: Faith Ringgold is an American painter, writer, mixed media sculptor, and performance artist best known for her narrative compositions painted on fabric. This print, Mama Can Sing, is a companion to Papa Can Blow (2003). Both prints are based upon Ringgold's “story quilt” series devoted to the African American jazz scene, Jazz Stories: Mama Can Sing, Papa Can Blow.
label: Description
content: A color lithograph depicting a woman singing. Outlined in blue and metallic gold against black, she wears a blue and gold striped dress and spreads her arms wide, her face tilted back, and her purple lips open in song. There are blue accent shapes behind her and, in the space between her arms and her body, the words “MAMA CAN SING.” In the margin just below the image, handwritten in graphite is the edition [AP 8/20], the title [Mama Can Sing] and the artist’s signature [Faith Ringgold 12/11/04].
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Jazz (Music)
label: Topic
content: Singers (Musicians)
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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: 2020.58.5
objectType: label: Type
content: screen prints
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Faith Ringgold 2004
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: 28 1/2 × 22 1/4 in. (72.4 × 56.5 cm)