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Janet Taylor Pickett (b. 1948)
Lot 207

Janet Taylor Pickett (b. 1948)

A Memory of Water

Closed7 October 2020

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USD 40,000

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Janet Taylor Pickett (b. 1948)
A Memory of Water
signed and dated 'Janet Taylor Pickett 2020' (lower left); signed again, inscribed, titled and dated again 'Pasadena, CA A Memory of Water Janet Taylor Pickett 2020' (on the stretcher bar)
acrylic and printed paper collage on canvas
40 x 60 in. (101.6 x 152.4 cm.)
Executed in 2020.

Baahng Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note


A Memory of Water represents the ever-present call and response water has had in the collective history of African Americans. Water symbolizes the flow of memory from the Nile River, to the Mississippi river, to the Middle Passage across the Atlantic Ocean; it is the genetic rhythm of memory that water holds.  
– Janet Taylor Pickett