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2020

  • Work on this object began.

2022

2024

2025

  • You found it!

Drawing, I saw your light. And it was shining. (from Rhinoceros woman By Assata Shakur)

This is a Drawing. It was created by Oasa DuVerney and made for (as the client) Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. It is dated 2020 and we acquired it in 2022. Its medium is brush and ink, watercolor, and gold leaf on paper. It is a part of the department.

It is credited Museum purchase through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Women's History Initiative.

Its dimensions are

25.4 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.)

Cite this object as

Drawing, I saw your light. And it was shining. (from Rhinoceros woman By Assata Shakur); Oasa DuVerney (American, born 1979); Client: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (United States); brush and ink, watercolor, and gold leaf on paper; 25.4 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 in.); Museum purchase through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Women's History Initiative; 2022-22-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Acquired! Shaping the National Design Collection.

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