10: Artist as Catalyst, American Noir
Artist:
Jerry Kearns
(American, born 1943)
Date: 1992
Medium: Color screen print on paper, 8 color
Dimensions:
26 x 26 in. (66 x 66 cm)
Classification: Visual Works
Credit Line: Museum purchase, Way Fund
Object number: 1993.11.6
DescriptionHorizontally oriented print. Print shows a sleeping woman on a bed, represented in a comic book style. Her form and that of the bed are reproduced over a waterfall. Above the woman, there is a nude white male figure and a shark with an open mouth. The male figure and the shark are appropriated from John Singleton Copley's 1778 painting "Watson and the Shark". Above the male figure and the shark, there is a thought bubble, which shows men in white hoods and robes who march.
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