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Woman on the Stairs No. 2

A work made of oil stick on black wove paper.

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  • A work made of oil stick on black wove paper.

Date:

1984

Artist:

Jane Dickson
American, born 1952

About this artwork

During the 1980s Jane Dickson was a resident of the seedy Times Square area of New York City. Consumed with the flavor and scary reality of the area’s nightlife, she adopted a luminous way of working with oil stick on dark papers. This practice, coupled with abruptly cropped figures and unusual angles of vision, yielded pictures heightened with an aura of mystery.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jane Dickson

Title

Woman on the Stairs No. 2

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1984

Medium

Oil stick on black wove paper

Dimensions

153.7 × 77.5 cm (60 9/16 × 30 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

William Cortis Bodine Fund and Prints and Drawings Club Fund

Reference Number

1984.629

Extended information about this artwork

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