Betye Saar

Betye Saar is a printmaker, sculptor, and collage and assemblage artist born in Los Angeles, CA. She earned a BA from the University of California, Los Angeles, and pursued graduate studies at California State University, Long Beach; California State University, Northridge; and the American Film Institute, Los Angeles.

Saar’s work is in public collections including the Detroit Institute of Arts; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Metropolitan Museum of Art and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City; and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her works are also featured in the traveling exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.

Saar lives and works in Los Angeles. The Getty Museum’s Getty Research Initiative has acquired Saar’s career archives as part of a major initiative to collect, study, and disseminate African American art history.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

Artist Info


Born

1926

Los Angeles, CA

Gender

Female

Nationality

American

Heritage

African American

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