Carroll Dunham. Eight from Female Portraits

Carroll Dunham

Eight from Female Portraits

2000

One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs

Not on view

These are not so much portraits as caricatures of portraits, each with a ropelike black frame that lends a seriousness to the disturbing figures Dunham calls "deformed characters." They began as quick marker sketches, which Dunham scanned into the computer and colored digitally. The studio then spent months trying to match printing inks to the fabulously elusive colors of the digital images, before ultimately printing them as lithographs.

Gallery label from

Artistic Collaborations: 50 Years at Universal Limited Art Editions, January 17–May 21, 2007.

Medium One from a portfolio of thirteen lithographs
Dimensions composition (irreg.): 9 1/8 x 8 7/16" (23.1 x 21.5 cm); sheet: 16 15/16 x 13 3/16" (43 x 33.5 cm)
Publisher Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), Bay Shore, NY
Printer Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE), Bay Shore, NY
Edition 23
Credit Gift of Emily Fisher Landau
Object number 1464.2001.8
Portfolio Female Portraits
Department Drawings and Prints

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