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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Artist Patti Warashina (American, born 1940)
Printer The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)
Date2016
MediumGraphite on paper
DimensionsImage and sheet: 4 1/2 × 3 3/4 inches (11.43 × 9.53 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 number2024.9.226
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DescriptionThis is a small original concept graphite sketch for "Between a Rock and a Hard Place". At the top is an inscription: P. W. “…Hard Place” There are two punched holes at the right-hand side of the paper that has uneven edges. There is a vertical rectangle at the center of the paper. Inside it there are numbers going clockwise: 8, 2 5 (stacked), 4 1/8, 4 18/32, 3 26 36 (stacked). The sketch around which the numbers are positioned shows a line drawing vaguely suggesting a volcano at the left with a plume of smoke, a human figure with a round torso to the right, and the back half of a cat in profile and the lower right. This sketch, aside from the smoke, is contained within a smaller horizontal rectangle.Provenance
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