Philadelphia Museum of Art highlights the work of this writer and sculptor. “Bringing together more than forty works from the United States and Europe, this exhibition examines Barbara Chase-Riboud’s artistic career, focusing primarily on her important Malcolm X sculptures. Five works from that series—among them the Museum’s Malcolm X #3 of 1969—and five closely related sculptures are included. A group of drawings from the late 1960s and early 1970s made during the development of the Malcolm X series and roughly twenty of the artist’s Monument Drawings from 1996–97 are also on view. “
Barbara Chase-Riboud: The Malcolm X Steles
Philadelphia Museum of Art Until January 20, 2014
Image: “Malcolm X #3”, 1969 Barbara Chase-Riboud (Polished bronze, rayon, and cotton, 9 feet 10 inches × 3 feet 11 1/4 inches × 9 7/8 inches)
FYI – per WikiPedia: “A stele, also stela, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerals or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the deceased or living — inscribed, carved in relief (bas-relief, sunken-relief, high-relief, and so forth), or painted onto the slab. It can also be used as a territorial marker to delineate land ownership.”