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Dracula and the Artist

1991, printed 2019

Lorraine O'Grady

(American, 1934–2024)
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Culture
Medium
Diptych, archival pigment print
Measurements
Image: 101.6 x 254 cm (40 x 100 in.); Framed: 103.8 x 258.4 x 4.4 cm (40 7/8 x 101 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2022.90
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

Lorraine O’Grady was an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Departments of Labor and State, a translator, and a rock critic before becoming an artist.

Description

Dracula addresses Black women’s relationship to their hair. In the left half of this diptych, or two-part piece, an artist with broken and unkempt hair stares at a flight of combs, their broken teeth evoking vampires’ fangs. In the right panel, the artist focuses on making her art, managing to accept herself as she is and overcome Dracula’s erotic allure.

Dracula and the Artist

1991, printed 2019

Lorraine O'Grady

(American, 1934–2024)

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