{{Short description|1994 painting by Ellen Gallagher}} {{Infobox artwork | image_file=Afro_Mountain.jpg | image_size=260px | title=Afro Mountain | artist=Ellen Gallagher | year = 1994 | medium=Ink and collaged paper on canvas | height_metric=213.7 | width_metric=183.5 | city=New York City | museum=Whitney Museum of American Art }} '''''Afro Mountain''''' is a 1994 painting by the American artist Ellen Gallagher. It is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, New York in the United States.

==Description== The painting keeps with the tradition of Gallagher's works of the 1990s and is considered an example of minimalist abstract art.<ref name="Visionaries">{{cite book|title=American Visionaries: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art|date=2001|publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art|location=New York|isbn=0810968312|page=[https://archive.org/details/americanvisionar0000whit/page/114 114]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/americanvisionar0000whit/page/114}}</ref> It comprises penmanship paper glued to a canvas with ink drawings of lips which overtake the entire bottom half of the large canvas.

==History==

''Afro Mountain'' was created by Gallagher in an empty print shop at Harvard University in 1994.<ref name="Halley">{{cite web|last1=Halley|first1=Peter|title=Ellen Gallagher, 1997|url=http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/ellen_gallagher.shtml|website=Index Magazine|publisher=Index Worldwide|access-date=9 February 2017}}</ref> The painting was a gift of an anonymous donor, in 1995, to the Whitney.<ref name="Whitney1">{{cite web|title=Afro Mountain|url=http://collection.whitney.org/object/9739|publisher=Whitney Museum of AmericanArt|access-date=9 February 2017}}</ref> ''Afro Mountain'' was exhibited at the Tate Modern's 2013 retrospective about Gallagher titled "Ellen Gallagher: AxME: Room 7."<ref name="Tate1">{{cite web|title=Ellen Gallagher: AxME: Room 7|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/ellen-gallagher-axme/ellen-gallagher-axme-exhibition-room-guide-6|website=Tate Modern|publisher=Tate|access-date=9 February 2017}}</ref> In 2010, the piece was included in the Whitney Biennial.<ref name="Rosenberg">{{cite web|last1=Rosenberg|first1=Karen|title=After the Annuals and Biennials, the Perennials|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/arts/design/26collecting.html|website=Art & Design|publisher=New York Times|access-date=9 February 2017}}</ref>

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Category:1994 paintings Category:Paintings by Ellen Gallagher