Trabajo

Artist Ed Paschke (American, 1939 - 2004)

Printer The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)

Date1993

MediumLithograph on Arches Cover white paper

DimensionsImage: 17 1/2 × 23 3/4 inches (44.45 × 60.33 cm)
Sheet: 24 1/2 × 31 inches (62.23 × 78.74 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund and the Andrew Atterbury and Gwen Prentice Fund

Object number2024.9.94

Edition/State/ProofRTP

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DescriptionThis is a four-color lithograph proof for Trabajo. On the left edge of the print, part of a man’s face partially turned to our right. The cheeks, forehead and chin are maroon; the open mouth is green; the nose is grey and the eyebrows are black. The ground color is a brilliant yellow. To his right, a bird (pigeon) facing left in profile with its feet on some sort of free-floating support. It has white feet, a “pompadour,” red and white shoulder feathers, and red and green tail feathers. Green rays emanating upwards from its body point to two small dark grey male heads. The head on the left has a green forehead and the one on the right a red headband. On the right edge of the print, a man’s face with green skin, yellow floral designs on its proper right cheek and temple, a grey nose and eyelids, and a red mouth.Gallery Label

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Ed Paschke collected media images, like newspaper photographs, to fuel his compositions. Coming from Chicago to The Lawrence Lithography Workshop, he brought images from his personal archive. About the combination of imagery that resulted in Trabajo Paschke wrote: “The diversity and range of humanity is represented (Black–Hispanic–white) in conjunction with a large bird. Racial and ethnic differences tend to create conflict and divide people. The bird represents the work (trabajo) through which people overcome their differences and build a better world.”

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