Forbidden Fruit
Photograph courtesy of the Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York
Object Label
The Egyptians worked with gold and semiprecious stones from earliest times. They mined both types of material in the desert east of the Nile and in present-day Sudan, called “Nubia” in ancient times after the ancient Egyptian word for gold (nub). Clearly, objects made from these high-value materials were available only to the highest ranks of society.
Caption
Nina Chanel Abney American, born 1982. Forbidden Fruit, 2009. Acrylic on canvas, 67 x 77 1/2 in. (170.2 x 196.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Brandt and anonymous gift, by exchange, 2009.23. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Photograph courtesy of the Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, CUR.2009.23_Kravets_Wehby_Gallery_photograph.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Forbidden Fruit
Date
2009
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Classification
Dimensions
67 x 77 1/2 in. (170.2 x 196.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Brandt and anonymous gift, by exchange
Accession Number
2009.23
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
The Brooklyn Museum holds a non-exclusive license to reproduce images of this work of art from the rights holder named here. The Museum does not warrant that the use of this work will not infringe on the rights of third parties. It is your responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions before copying, transmitting, or making other use of protected items beyond that allowed by "fair use," as such term is understood under the United States Copyright Act. For further information about copyright, we recommend resources at the United States Library of Congress, Cornell University, Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums, and Copyright Watch. For more information about the Museum's rights project, including how rights types are assigned, please see our blog posts on copyright. If you have any information regarding this work and rights to it, please contact copyright@brooklynmuseum.org. If you wish to contact the rights holder for this work, please email copyright@brooklynmuseum.org and we will assist if we can.
Have information?
Have information about an artwork? Contact us at