Gag Bags and Taco Girls

Artist Tom Hück (American, born 1971)

Date2001

MediumWoodcut on paper

DimensionsImage: 38 3/4 × 21 1/2 inches (98.43 × 54.61 cm)
Sheet: 44 × 26 3/8 inches (111.76 × 66.99 cm)
Framed: 53 7/16 × 37 3/16 inches (135.73 × 94.46 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Print Society through the generosity of Dr. Leo R. Goertz

Object number2001.25

Signed(On block, lower left corner): TH

Markings(Printer's chop, lower right corner, margin): devil's head

Edition/State/Proof26/50

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DescriptionCentral shorts-clad, rollerskating, helmeted girl bearing tray of food in raised right hand, head facing front, stands above and to the left of masked figure atop dolphin, holding paddle with ball on string, and at the right, a kneeling boy with gripped hose merging from hind-quarters, extending left and upward to floating pig-like balloon marked "Foxy Taco!" Right margin, center, a masked hatted figure sits on turtle-like being on spring atop platter of spiky vegetal material. Near top left, a running shorts-clad woman in front of a line of buildings extending to the right.Gallery Label

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Tom Huck is best known for his large-scale satirical woodcuts of the small and strange rural Missouri town in which he grew up. In Gag Bags and Taco Girls we see a risqué waitress on roller skates delivering lunch while pulling her son in a wagon. His flatulence inflates a balloon in the shape of a mythical animal overhead. The modulated gradations throughout this work are achieved through the artist's skillful woodcutting.

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