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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