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Enmeshed Man

Artist Naomi Savage (American, 1927 - 2005)
Date1966
MediumPhoto-etching on copper plate
DimensionsImage: 9 3/4 × 7 13/16 inches (24.77 × 19.84 cm)
Plate: 10 3/8 × 8 7/16 inches (26.35 × 21.43 cm)
Framed: 18 1/4 × 14 1/4 × 1 1/8 inches (46.36 × 36.2 × 2.86 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.254.1,2
SignedSignature on plate verso, center, etched: “Naomi Savage”; Artist’s stamp on mat verso, lower right, in black ink: “PHOTOGRAPH BY / NAOMI SAVAGE”.
InscribedInscribed on mat verso, lower right, in black pen: “Enmeshed Man / Photo-Engraving”
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. of 8
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionImage of figure's head and shoulders in frontal silhouette; the three-dimensional plate has a cracking topographic appearance with black crevices in between the raised gold segments which outline and fill in the form.Provenance

Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;   
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.

 

Copyright© Estate of Naomi Savage
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