Bring a Folding Chair: A Portrait of Shirley Chisholm

Bisa Butler

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Caption

Bisa Butler (American, born 1973). Bring a Folding Chair: A Portrait of Shirley Chisholm, 2024. Cotton, silk, wool, velvet, polyester, vinyl, 90 × 58 in. (228.6 × 147.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchase gift of Sherrese Clarke Soares and Catherine Futter, with support from the Fund for African American Art and William K. Jacobs, Jr Fund, 2025.1. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Bring a Folding Chair: A Portrait of Shirley Chisholm

Date

2024

Medium

Cotton, silk, wool, velvet, polyester, vinyl

Classification

Textile

Dimensions

90 × 58 in. (228.6 × 147.3 cm)

Credit Line

Purchase gift of Sherrese Clarke Soares and Catherine Futter, with support from the Fund for African American Art and William K. Jacobs, Jr Fund

Accession Number

2025.1

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