Even Steven

Name/Title

Even Steven

Entry/Object ID

2025.14.02

Description

This piece is a small painting on board with a small loop at the top. It depicts an image of a cat with a blue nose and a green bow beside text that reads "$100" and "Thanks Jack." There are four nails securing the top board to four boards underneath the sides.

Artwork Details

Medium

Acrylic on board

Context

Kamau Amu Patton is an American interdisciplinary artist and educator whose practice investigates history and culture through deep engagement with archives, documents, networks, and physical sites. His work unfolds as dialogic, immersive constructs—expanded-field, intermedia structures that invite active inquiry and response. Patton received his MFA from Stanford University in 2007 and holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.

Acquisition

Accession

2025.14

Source or Donor

Connie Tilton

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Tilton Family Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Patton, Kamau Amu

Date made

2000

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Type

Signature

Location

Back

Transcription

04 / "even steven" / for / Mr. Titlon... / from: / Kamau Patton / 2000

Material/Technique

in paint

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Painting

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

African American, modern North American, modern American, Americas, The

Hierarchy Name

Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)

Facet

Styles and Periods Facet, Objects Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Cats

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Board

Height

5-7/8 in

Width

5-3/8 in

Depth

1-1/8 in