title: Afro Mountain
text: # Afro Mountain
  
  Afro Mountain is a 1994 painting by Ellen Gallagher. It is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, New York in the United States.
  
  ## Description
  
  The painting keeps with the tradition of Gallagher's works of the 1990s and is considered an example of minimalist abstract art. It comprises penmanship paper glued to a canvas with ink drawings of lips which overtake the entire bottom half of the large canvas.
  
  ## History
  
  Afro Mountain was created by Gallagher in an empty print shop at Harvard University in 1994. The painting was a gift of an anonymous donor, in 1995, to the Whitney. Afro Mountain was exhibited at the Tate Modern's 2013 retrospective about Gallagher titled "Ellen Gallagher: AxME: Room 7." In 2010, the piece was included in the Whitney Biennial.
  
  