Tar Beach 2

© Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.…
© Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
Tar Beach 2
© Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Tar Beach 2

Datec. 1990
Artist (American painter and sculptor, 1930–2024)
MediumScreen print on silk with pieced fabric borders, quilted with fishing line
Dimensions66 × 66 in. (167.6 × 167.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Marion Stroud, 2002
Object number2003-4
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsTEXTILE
Label TextArtist and author Faith Ringgold creates painted story quilts, combining pictorial imagery with a traditional textile form. Tar Beach 2 tells the story of Cassie Louise Lightfoot, an eight-year-old girl who dreams of flying over her family's Harlem apartment building and throughout the rest of New York City. In 1991, Ringgold published an award-winning children's book, Tar Beach, based on this story.
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