Overview
- Her family confirmed she died in Los Angeles on Sunday, July 26, days before what would have been her 100th birthday.
- Black Girl's Window (1969) became a turning point for her wider recognition after the Museum of Modern Art acquired it and put her work in major collections.
- The Liberation of Aunt Jemima (1972) is a defining example of her method, converting a racist stereotype into an image of Black power by arming the figure and reclaiming its meaning.
- Saar rose to prominence in the 1960s Black‑Art movement and spent decades making political assemblages from found and discarded objects that mixed personal history, spirituality, and social critique.
- Recent retrospectives, a 2023 documentary by Angela Robinson Witherspoon, and museum acquisitions have renewed public and scholarly attention and are likely to prompt more exhibitions, acquisitions, and study of her influence on younger artists.