Sojourner Truth

Artist Roberto Lugo (born 1981)

Date2024

DimensionsOverall: 7 × 5 1/2 × 8 in. (17.8 × 14 × 20.3 cm)

Credit LinePurchase 2025 The Newark Museum of Art Acquisition Bequest Fund, Catherine Viviano Fund, Fanny H. Moore Fund, and Emma Fantone Endowment Fund

Object number2025.8.2.1A,B

On View

On view

Object NameTeapot

Title Details

Primary Title Sojourner Truth

ProvenanceFrom artist to R & Company to Museum. The artist has created a large group of unique teapots highlighting Black and Latinx people, including renowned figures as well as lesser known but equally groundbreaking people.Exhibition History"Seeing America: 18th and 19th Centuries," The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey (June 23, 2026 - ongoing)
"Objects: USA 2024" at R & Company from September 6, 2024 – January 10, 2025

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