Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Artist Patti Warashina (American, born 1940)

Publisher The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)

Date2017

MediumLithograph on Rives BFK white paper

DimensionsImage: 17 1/4 × 15 inches (43.82 × 38.1 cm)
Sheet: 24 × 18 1/2 inches (60.96 × 46.99 cm)

Credit LineGift of C. Richard and Evelyn Belger

Object number2023.40.94

SignedSigned below the image: P Warashima 2017

MarkingsSigned below the image: 10/24 “Between a Rock and a Hard Place”

Edition/State/Proof10/24

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DescriptionIn the square bordered by the red line in the center of the sheet, a female figure in red and white, with a wide torso and stick-like arms and legs, stretches between a black volcano on the left and the red border on the right. Her face in seen in three-quarter view facing left and she had short, bright red hair. The volcano is black with a bright yellow base and is also outlined in red. It spews a large curvy grey plume of ash in the upper part of the sheet above the square. The ash drifts over twin suns on the right. Three small black hills are also seen, two on top of the square and one to the left. A black line goes from the one on the left, behind the volcano and the woman, and curves around the woman’s proper left torso to end in a plane heading straight to the ground. In the lower right corner of the square, the back half of a cat, seen in profile with striped leg and tail, walking to the right, out of the image.Provenance

Provenance

C. Richard Belger and Evelyn Craft Belger, Kansas City, MO;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013.

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