Work - Betye Saar

To Catch a Unicorn

1960 Color etching Image: 14.75 x 8 in (37.5 x 20.3 cm); Sheet: 17 x 9.25 in (43.18 x 23.5 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Anticipation

1961 Serigraph Image: 18 x 14.25 in (45.7 x 36.2 cm); Sheet: 20.5 x 16.86 in (52.07 x 42.82 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Amid Hallucinatory Moons

1962 Color etching from two plates Image: 14.86 x 19.25 in (37.7 x 48.9 cm); Sheet: 15.5 x 19.75 in (39.37 x 50.17 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Lo, The Mystique City

1965 Etching and aquatint with relief-printed found objects Image 17.75 x 19.75 in (45 x 50.2 cm); Paper 20 x 22.88 in (50.8 x 54 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Woman with Birds in her Hair

1965 Print on paper 7 x 7.5 in (17.8 x 19.1 cm)

Phrenology Man Digs Sol Y Luna

1966 Color etching Image 14.88 x 15 in (37.87 x 38.1 cm) Paper 17 x 17.5 in (43 x 44.5 cm)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Palm of Love

1966 Color etching Image: 18 x 23.75 in (45.72 x 60.33 cm); Sheet: 18.5 x 24 in (47 x 61 cm)

The Musuem of Modern Art, New York, NY

Mystic Window For Leo

1966 Mixed media drawing and etching in window 14.25 x 17.75 in (36.2 x 45.1 cm)

Private Collection

Mystic Window of Summer

1967 Mixed media assemblage 35.75 x 18 x 1.25 in (90.8 x 45.7 x 3.2 cm)

Private Collection

Omen

1967 Mixed media assemblage 12.8 x 9.25 x 3.1 in (32.5 x 23.5 x 8 cm)

Private Collection

Black Girl's Window

1969 Wooden window frame with paint, cut-and-pasted printed and painted papers, daguerreotype, lenticular print, and plastic figurin 35 3/4 x 18 x 1 1/2" (90.8 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Gift of Candace King Weir through The Modern Women's Fund, and Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds

The Divine Face

1971 Mixed media assemblage 42 x 22.25 x .38 in (106.7 x 56.5 x 1.0 cm)

Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst and the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

The Divine Face and Hand

1971 Acrylic and enamel on paper 14.375 x 9 in (36.5 x 22.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Eshu (The Trickster)

1971 Mixed media assemblage 40.25 x 38 x .25 in (102.2 x 96.5 x 0.6 cm)

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Nancy Lauter McDougal and Alfred L. McDougal Fund

Gelede

1971 Mixed Media assemblage 54 x 15 x 3 in (137.2 x 38.1 x 7.6 cm)

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

Gris Gris Box

1972 Mixed media assemblage 17 x 8.5 x 2.75 in (43.2 x 21.6 x 7 cm)

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, Purchase with funds provided by the Acquisition and Collection Committee

The Liberation of Aunt Jemima

1972 Mixed media assemblage 11.75 x 8 x 2.75 in (29.85 x 20.32 x 7.0 cm)

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; purchased with the aid of funds from the National Endowment for the Arts (selected by The Committee for the Acquisition of Afro-American Art)

I've Got Rythm

1972 Mixed media assemblage 8.56 × 4.43 × 4.43 in (21.7 × 11.3 × 11.3 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 99.87a-b

Ten Mojo Secrets

1972 Mixed media assemblage 40 x 20 x 2 in (101.6 x 50.8 x 5.1 cm)

Private Collection

MTI

1973 Mixed media floor assemblage 42.5 x 23.5 x 17.5 in (107.95 x 59.69 x 44.45 cm)

Tate, Presented by the Tate Americas Foundation 2022

Rainbow Garden

1974 Mixed media assemblage 17 x 11.75 in (43.18 x 29.85 cm)

Private Collection

Indigo Mercy

1975 Mixed media assemblage 41.5 x 13 x 13 in (105.4 x 33 x 33 cm)

The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, Gift of The Nzingha Society, Inc.

Sky Window

1975 Mixed media assemblage with window, paper, wood, glass and metal 24 x 18 x 1.5 in (61 x 45.7 x 3.8 cm)

Private Collection

Spiritcatcher

1977 Mixed media assemblage 45 x 18 x 18 in (114.3 x 45.7 x 45.7 cm)

Private Collection

Tariqat (The Path)

1980 Mixed media collage on paper 20 x 26 in (50.8 x 66.0 cm)

Dispeller of Darkness

1980 Mixed media collage on paper 22.25 x 20 in (56.5 x 50.8 cm)

Dat Ol' Black Magic

1981 Mixed media collage 13.75 x 13.25in (34.93 x 33.66 cm)

National Gallery of Art, Corcoran Collection (The Evans-Tibbs Collection, Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.), Washington, DC

A Version of Survival

1983 Mixed media assemblage 14.5 x 15.5 x 6.75 in (36.8 x 39.4 x 17.1 cm)

Private Collection

Wings of Morning

1987-1992 Mixed media assemblage 65 x 37 x 5 in (165.1 x 94.0 x 12.7 cm)

The Celestial Universe

1988 Dye on silk 95 x 139 in (241.3 x 353.1 cm)

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

Guardian of Desires

1988 Mixed media assemblage 10.75 x 7.25 x 2.75 in (27.3 x 18.4 x 7.0 cm)

Tia Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Garden Reliquary

1989 Mixed media assemblage 18 x 13 x 2 in (45.7 x 33 x 5.1 cm)

Critter Chair: The Seat of the Spirit

1990 Mixed media assemblage with wood, paint, leather and metal 23 x 14.5 x 20 in. (58.4 x 36.8 x 50.8 cm)

Gris Gris Guardian

1990-1993 Mixed media assemblage 28 x 11 x 7 1/2 in. (71.12 x 27.94 x 19.05 cm)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Purchased with funds provided by the Richard Florsheim Art Fund and the Modern and Contemporary Art Council (AC1996.162.1)

Shaman

1991 Mixed media assemblage 12 x 11.5 x 3 in (30.48 x 29.21 x 7.62 cm)

Indigo Illusions

1991 Mixed media assemblage with neon 17.5 x 11.5 x 5 in (44.45 x 29.21 x 12.7 cm)

Mojo Eyes (Spirit Door)

1992 Mixed media assemblage 85.5 x 19.75 x .75 in (217.2 x 50.2 x 1.9 cm)

Eternity's Witness

1992 Mixed media assemblage 30 x 15.5 x 10 in (76.2 x 39.4 x 25.4 cm)

Private Collection

The Trickster

1994 Mixed media assemblage 88 x 28 x 13 in (223.5 x 71.1 x 33 cm)

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Purchased as the Gift of Sharon Percy Rockefeller and Senator John Davison Rockefeller IV

Chronicles

1995 Mixed media assemblage 15 x 12.12 x 1.62 in (38.1 x 30.8 x 4.1 cm)

Private Collection

Diaspora's Spirit

1996 Etched steel and mixed media 72 x 20 x 8 in (182.9 x 50.8 x 20.3 cm)

The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

Sanctuary Awaits

1996 Mixed media assemblage 61 x 34 x 20.5 in (154.9 x 86.4 x 52.1 cm)

Glenstone, Potomac, MD

A Loss of Innocence

1998 Mixed media installation 50 x 12 x 12 in (127.0 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm)

Supreme Quality

1998 Mixed media on vintage washboard and tub 37.5 x 22.25 x 20 in (95.2 x 56.5 x 50.8 cm)

The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Power

1998-99 Mixed media assemblage 23.5 x 11.5 x 12.25 in (59.7 x 29.2 x 31.1 cm)

Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, UT

Madame Mulatto

2001 Mixed media assemblage 15 x 12 x .5 in (38.1 x 30.5 x 1.3 cm)

Brown Sugah

2001 Mixed media collage on paperboard 36.5 x 30.5 x 2.875 in (92.7 x 77.5 x 7.3 cm)

Redbone & Black: Scouts

2001 Mixed media collage on paper 17.5 x 25 in (44.5 x 63.5 cm)

Blend

2002 Mixed media collage on hand made paper 55 x 25.75 x .75 in (139.7 x 65.4 x 1.9 cm)

Private Collection

Still Ticking

2005 Mixed media assemblage 29.5 x 19 x 16 in (74.9 x 48.3 x 40.6 cm)

Crossings

2005 Mixed media assemblage on vintage wood object 26.5 x 19.125 x 7.25 in (67.31 x 48.58 x 18.42 cm)

Private Collection

Migration: Africa to America II

2006 Mixed media assemblage 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (29.8 x 24.8 x 23.5 cm)

The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

Yesteryear

2006 Mixed media assemblage 20 x 24 x 1.75 in (50.8 x 61.0 x 4.4 cm)

Private Collection

Migration: South to North

2006 Mixed media assemblage 16.5 x 25.5 x 4 in (42.0 x 65.0 x 10.5 cm)

Private Collection

Cage (In the Beginning)

2006 Mixed media assemblage 42 x 15 x 12 in (106.7 x 38.1 x 30.5 cm)

Private Collection

Globe Trotter

2007 Mixed media assemblage 32 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 14 1/8 in. (82.5 x 46.4 x 35.9 cm)

Vanity

2009 Mixed media assemblage 23.25 x 22.5 x 16 in (59.1 x 57.2 x 40.6 cm)

Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT

The Destiny of Latitude & Longitude

2010 Mixed media assemblage 54 x 43 x 20.5 in (137.2 x 109.2 x 52.1 cm)

Baltimore Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

Crimson Captive

2011 Mixed media assemblage 53.5 x 20 x 19.25 in (135.9 x 50.8 x 48.9 cm)

Private Collection

Red Ascension

2011 Mixed media assemblage 17.5 x 96.5 x 3.25 in (44.5 x 245.1 x 8.3 cm)

Flutter

2012 Mixed media assemblage 13 x 28 x 1 in (33.0 x 71.1 x 2.5 cm)

The Weight of Buddha (Contemplating Mother Wit and Street Smarts)

2014 Mixed media assemblage 19.5 x 7 x 7 in (47 x 17.78 x 17.78 cm)

Private Collection

Someone's in the Kitchen with Dinah

2014 Mixed media assemblage 16.5 x 6 x 10.5 in (41.91 x 17.14 x 26.67 cm)

Private Collection

Weight of Persistent Racism (Manufactured in the U.S.A.)

2014 Mixed media assemblage 25 x 9 x 7 in (63.5 x 22.86 x 17.78 cm)

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX; Museum purchase funded by contemporary@mfah and the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment

Dark Journey: The Game of Destiny

2016 Mixed media assemblage 31 x 15.5 x 15.5 in (78.74 x 39.37 x 39.37 cm)

Private Collection

The Game of Fate

2016 Mixed media assemblage 24 x 9.5 x 10 in (61.0 x 24.1 x 25.4 cm)

Private Collection

Gliding Into Midnight

2019 Mixed media assemblage tableau 22 x 36 x 138 in (55.9 x 91.4 x 350.5 cm)

Tia Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Woke Up This Morning, the Blues was in My Bed

2019 Mixed media assemblage 25.25 x 78 x 43 in (64.1 x 198.1 x 109.2 cm)

Legends in Blue

2020 Mixed media assemblage 10 x 10 in (25.4 x 25.4 cm)

Blue Mystic Window with 5 Hands

2022 Watercolor and mixed media on paper in found window frame 28 x 11 x 1 in (71.1 x 27.9 x 2.5 cm)

10 Dolls with Black Mask

2022 Watercolor on paper 22 x 30 in (55.9 x 76.2 cm)

Doll with Watermelon in Mystic Sky

2022 Watercolor on paper 18 x 24 in (45.7 x 61 cm)

Blue Mystic Window with Cosmos

2022 Watercolor and mixed media on paper in found window frame 18 x 24 x 1 in (45.7 x 61 x 2.5 cm)

Tower of Destiny

2023 Mixed media assemblage on vintage washboards 73 x 8.5 x 2.5 in (185.4 x 21.6 x 6.4 cm)

A Different Destiny

2024 Mixed media assemblage 14.75 x 9.5 x 3.75 in (37.5 x 24.1 x 9.5 cm)

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

Memories Lost at Sea

2024 Mixed media assemblage 8 x 13.5 x 5.75 in (20.3 x 34.3 x 14.6 cm)

Seeking the Promise

2025

Mixed media assemblage
75 x 51 x 27 in (190.5 x 129.5 x 68.6 cm)