Artwork Info
- Artwork title
- Janded
- Artist name
-
Njideka Akunyili Crosby
- Date created
- 2012
- Classification
- painting
- Medium
- acrylic, collage and oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 24 × 20 in. (61.0 × 50.8 cm)
- Date acquired
- 2013
- Credit
- Collection SFMOMA
Purchase through a gift of Pamela Joyner in honor of Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture - Copyright
- © Njideka Akunyili
- Permanent URL
- https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2013.8
- Artwork status
- Not on view at this time.
Artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby discusses Janded (2012), her spare portrayal of a young Nigerian woman. She describes the figure’s complex backstory and the meaning of the Nigerian slang term that gave the canvas its name.
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