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Ladder for Booker T. Washington, 1996

Martin Puryear (American, b. 1941)

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Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth / © Martin Puryear; used with permission

Martin Puryear (American, b. 1941). Ladder for Booker T. Washington, 1996. Wood (ash and maple). 432 x 22 3/4 in., narrowing at the top to 1 1/4 x 3 in. (1097.28 x 57.785. cm, narrowing to 3.175 x 7.6 cm). Gift of Ruth Carter Stevenson, by Exchange.

Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth / © Martin Puryear

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Picturing America is a K-12 teaching tool created by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The tool consists of 40 art-historic images of paintings, sculpture, drawings, decorative objects and architecture that represent several centuries of U.S. history. Used singly, chronologically or thematically, the images provide gateways to cross-curriculum learning in social studies, history, writing, literature, geography, civics, and other subjects.

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