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Sherrie Levine, Derrière L'Étoile Studios, and others

After Kirchner

1988

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After Kirchner

1988

Physical Qualities Color woodcut, Sheet: 925 x 655 mm. (36 7/16 x 25 13/16 in.) Image: 610 x 458 mm. (24 x 18 1/16 in.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from Gift of Suzanne F. Cohen, Baltimore; and the Nathan L. and Suzanne F. Cohen Contemporary Art Fund
Object Number 1991.70.3
Sherrie Levine, in her words, melts down images of iconic artworks to create these geometric woodcut prints that explore ideas of originality and authorship, which are frequently entangled with gender in the patriarchal framework of Western art history. Here, she took reproductions of four works by canonical male artists—Claude Monet, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Piet Mondrian, and Marcel Duchamp—and scanned them into a computer program that averaged their chromatic information to 12 pixels. These woodcuts reproduce those digital color palettes using ink. Unlike the other works on view, Cohen did not collect or live with these particular prints at home. Rather, she and her late husband Nathan L. Cohen established a fund that enables BMA curators to grow and diversify the contemporary art collection, with purchases such as this one.
Jan Howard, BMA, "Marking the Decades: Prints 1960-1990," February 23- April 26, 1992.

Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.

The Baltimore Museum of Art, "On Certainty: Gifts from the Collection of Suzanne F. Cohen," (first rotation) November 14, 2021 - April 7, 2022.

Artist

Sherrie Levine

1946–2000

born Hazleton, PA 1947
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Printer

James Miller

2000–2000

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Printer

Maurice Sánchez

1979–1979

American, active 1980s
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