Cat's Cradle

Prints and Drawings

1972

Charles White (American, 1918-1979)
printed by Joseph Mugnaini (American, born Italy, 1912–1992) and Hugo Mugnaini (American, 1916–2001)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Charles White
Title: Cat's Cradle
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1972
Medium: Etching in black on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower right, below plate, in graphite: “CHARLES WHITE ‘72”; inscribed lower left, below plate, in graphite: ““CATSCRADLE” 1/25 ED.”
Dimensions: Image/plate: 60.4 × 67.7 cm (23 13/16 × 26 11/16 in.); Sheet: 71.4 × 100.2 cm (28 1/8 × 39 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Fisher Fund
Reference Number: 2017.302
Copyright: © The Charles White Archives Inc.

By descent to the artist’s son, C. Ian White, Altadena, Cal.; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2017.

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