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Lucy: The 3.5 Million Year Old Lady, 1977, mixed media on wood and fabric, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2020.12. — Minneapolis Institute of Art · 2020.12
Lucy: The 3.5 Million Year Old Lady, 1977, mixed media on wood and fabric, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2020.12.
Minneapolis Institute of Art; © 2022 Faith Ringgold/ARS member; Courtesy ACA Galleries, New York
ImagePrinted p. 86, cat. 1 (supplied scan PDF p. 86)
RightsThe site owner has explicitly confirmed written permission to publish all 263 catalogue images and the five architecture figures from this book on HabeshaHistory.com. Original image credits are retained; no downstream reuse permission is granted.
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Lucy: The 3.5 Million Year Old Lady, 1977, mixed media on wood and fabric, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2020.12. — Lucy: The 3.5 Million Year Old Lady, 1977, mixed media on wood and fabric, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2020.12.Minneapolis Institute of Art; © 2022 Faith Ringgold/ARS member; Courtesy ACA Galleries, New YorkImagePrinted p. 86, cat. 1 (supplied scan PDF p. 86)RightsThe site owner has explicitly confirmed written permission to publish all 263 catalogue images and the five architecture figures from this book on HabeshaHistory.com. Original image credits are retained; no downstream reuse permission is granted.
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Lucy: The 3.5 Million Year Old Lady

1977

Modern · artifact

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Catalogue no. 1: Lucy: The 3.5 Million Year Old Lady. 1977; mixed media on wood and fabric.

Date: 1977
Object type: Contemporary & multimedia
Recorded place: Not recorded in the catalogue
Holding: Minneapolis Institute of Art
Accession: 2020.12
Image locator: Printed p. 86, cat. 1 (supplied scan PDF p. 86)

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Catalogue details and identifications are retained with their source.

Ethiopia at the Crossroads — Yale University Press official publisher record
Christine Sciacca, ed., Ethiopia at the Crossroads (Baltimore: The Walters Art Museum, in association with Yale University Press, 2023). printed exhibition catalogue
Printed p. 86, cat. 1 (supplied scan PDF p. 86) image locator in cited source