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My Blood

A work made of watercolor, crayon, and brush and handprint in brown ink on ivory wove paper, cut and collaged onto ivory wove paper prepared with blood mixed with pink wash, with black fiber-tipped pen and cut and pasted black laser printed label.

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  • A work made of watercolor, crayon, and brush and handprint in brown ink on ivory wove paper, cut and collaged onto ivory wove paper prepared with blood mixed with pink wash, with black fiber-tipped pen and cut and pasted black laser printed label.

Date:

1991

Artist:

Jimmie Durham
American, 1940-2021

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jimmie Durham

Title

My Blood

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1991

Medium

Watercolor, crayon, and brush and handprint in brown ink on ivory wove paper, cut and collaged onto ivory wove paper prepared with blood mixed with pink wash, with black fiber-tipped pen and cut and pasted black laser printed label

Inscriptions

Signed and dated lower right, in pen and black ink: "J. DURHAM / 91"

Dimensions

Sight: 59.5 × 48 cm (23 7/16 × 18 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John Morace and Tom Kennedy

Reference Number

2019.782

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