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Tally is a painting by Ellen Gallagher. It is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.

Tally
Artist	Ellen Gallagher
Year	1994
Medium	Oil, pencil and paper on canvas
Dimensions	84 cm × 72 cm (33 in × 28 in)
Location	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

This painting is part of an early series that Gallagher created examining minstrel shows. Sheets of penmanship paper are adhered to a canvas. Neutral colored oil paint and blue pencil emphasizes the lines on, and color of, the paper. Lightly drawn symbols decorate the pieces of paper, including drawings of red lips and eyeballs which represent early stereotypes of African American peoples.[1]

This painting was acquired by the Museum on December 14, 1994, from the Mario Diacono Gallery, which representing Gallagher. Funding for the purchase came from the Living New England Artist Purchase Fund.[1]

See also

• Untitled, another painting in the same series by Gallagher

References

Further reading

• Schwartz, Alexandra. Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s. Berkeley: University of California Press (2015). ISBN 0520282884

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