Jim Dine and Pace Editions, Inc., New York
The Five Hammer Études
2007
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching, drypoint, aquatint, and power tools on five joined sheets of paper, Sheet: 751 x 2564 mm. (29 9/16 x 100 15/16 in.)
Plate: 593 x 2420 mm. (23 3/8 x 95 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Artist
Object Number
2008.5
The five plates that make up this remarkable print were first created in 1984 in the Paris workshop of master printer Aldo Crommelynck and were each published separately as The New French Tools. Dine revised two of the plates in 1985 by adding hearts above the tools, and then printed the two plates together on one sheet as Tools and Dreams. In 2007, Dine reworked all five of the plates-replacing the hearts with hammers-to create The Five Hammer Etudes. The French term étude, or study, pays homage to the Frenchman Crommelynck, who recently retired. Dine has retrieved over 130 plates from the workshop for future reworking. Since The Five Hammer Etudes was printed last year, Dine reports he has already revisited these plates.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2008; the artist
Ann Shafer, BMA, "Front Room: Jim Dine," 11 June - 5 October 2008, illus in unpaginated brochure.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "BMA Today," Summer 2008, ill. pp. 6-7.
Shafer, Ann. Jim Dine. Front Room. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2008, unpaged.
Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "A/P"; lower right in graphite: "Jim Dine 2007"
