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- Betye Saar died in Los Angeles at age 99, a week before her 100th birthday.
- A central figure of the 1960s Black Art Movement, she pioneered assemblage boxes and created the 1972 “Liberation of Aunt Jemima,” a rifle-armed mammy piece responding to the 1968 assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
- In 2019 MoMA acquired her 1969 “Black Girl’s Window” while LACMA and MoMA staged solo exhibitions of her work.
