About this artwork
From the mid-1980s until recently, Jane Hammond selected her imagery from a picture file of some 276 clippings, assembled throughout her life, and dispersed intuitively over the surfaces of paper and canvas. Always interested in collecting data and classification—as a child she famously mapped and classified a 100-square-foot section of forest floor behind her house—Hammond has developed a visual syntax that owes much to the poetic free-association typical of Surrealist artists. This drawing typifies her complex process of building a picture in layers, from stains left by transfers, to applied-color photocopies.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Jane Hammond
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Title
- Double Blind
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1993
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Medium
- Collage composed of color photocopies and linocuts, with solvent-transfered color-photo-copied images, graphite and crayon frottage from linocuts, gouache and acrylic paint, on pieced cream Japanese paper
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Dimensions
- 90.5 × 82.4 cm (35 11/16 × 32 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Kaye and Howard Haas
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Reference Number
- 1994.247
Extended information about this artwork
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