THE COLLECTION
Kiki Smith (American, born Germany 1954)
Pool of Tears 2 (after Lewis Carroll)
- Date:
- 2000
- Medium:
- Etching, aquatint, and drypoint with watercolor additions
- Dimensions:
- plate: 47 1/2 x 71 3/4" (120.7 x 182.3 cm), sheet: 50 13/16 x 74 1/2" (129 x 189.2 cm)
- Publisher:
- Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip and Bay Shore, New York
- Printer:
- Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip and Bay Shore, New York
- Edition:
- 29
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Emily Fisher Landau
- MoMA Number:
- 1529.2001
- Copyright:
- © 2013 Kiki Smith
Artistic Collaborations: 50 Years at Universal Limited Art Editions
January 17–May 21, 2007
In her recent work Smith has often turned to fairy tales in search of dramatic female personae and alter egos. The poignant vulnerability of childhood is an underlying theme in many of her images, like this one, based on Lewis Carroll's manuscript drawings for Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1886). The tension between young girls and animals pervades this scene as Alice struggles in a pool of her own tears with the duck, the dodo, and others. In order to represent the animals close to life-size Smith drew on the largest copperplate ULAE's etching press could accommodate.
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