Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time
Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time
Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time

© Betye Saar

Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time
Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time
Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time

Currently not on view

Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time,

1998

Betye Saar, born 1926, Los Angeles, CA; active Los Angeles
Printed by Judith Solodkin, Solo Impression, Inc. , assisted by Vincent FitzGerald and Rodney Doyle
Published by Solo Impression, Inc. and Vincent FitzGerald & Co., New York
2021-64

Information

Title
Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time
Dates

1998

Maker
Betye Saar
Printed by Judith Solodkin, Solo Impression, Inc. , assisted by Vincent FitzGerald and Rodney Doyle
Published by Solo Impression, Inc. and Vincent FitzGerald & Co., New York
Medium
Color lithograph with collaged photocopy and hand coloring
Dimensions
68.6 × 55.9 cm (27 × 22 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the PECO Foundation
Object Number
2021-64
Signatures
Numbered, titled, signed, and dated by the artist, in yellow pencil, lower left: 40/45 Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time Betye Saar 1998
Inscription
In pencil, verso: 97.618 [unknown hand]
Culture
American
Type
prints, color lithographs
Techniques
hand coloring, collage, lithography
Subject
sky, turbans, faces, fires, night, women

Judith Solodkin, New York.

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