About This Artwork
Ronald Jones (American, born 1952)
printed by Landfall Press
Untitled1990
Color woodcut on ivory wove Japanese paper
2155 x 660 mm (sheet)
Gift of Norman and Stanley Freehling, 1994.135
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
This print is one of a pair that Jones made, using as the printing matrix (wood block), a collapse board from Walla Walla (Washington) prison. Prior to execution, prisoners condemned to death by hanging are strapped to a collapse board to prevent their crumpling at the knees or losing "intestinal fortitude."