End of the Rainbow
Artist
Roger Yukata Shimomura
(American, born 1939)
Printer
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop
(American, founded 1979)
Date2004
MediumLithograph on Arches Cover white paper and Okawara paper chine collé
DimensionsImage: 18 × 24 inches (45.72 × 60.96 cm)
Sheet: 22 1/4 × 37 3/4 inches (56.52 × 95.89 cm)
Sheet: 22 1/4 × 37 3/4 inches (56.52 × 95.89 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 number2024.9.111
Edition/State/ProofPP
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionA montage of images in black and cream. Starting at the lower left corner and going clockwise: Head of a Japanese woman with an elaborate hairdo with combs. She is in three-quarter view facing right. She holds a book(?) topped by a black block(?) in her proper right hand. The torso of a man opening his coat to reveal a Superman costume. His cleft chin faces left. The face of a male Kabuki actor behind a length of twisted rope. A disembodied proper right hand, holding chopsticks that point to the woman’s head. The head of a man facing left in profil perdu. He wears a headband and is bald on top with black hair wrapped around the back of his head. The head, neck and arms of a smiling white woman lounging back with her arms above her head.Provenance
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