Identity

© Pat Steir

Identity

Currently not on view

Identity,

1976

Pat Steir, born 1938, Newark, NJ; active New York, NY
x1993-278 g

Information

Title
Identity
Dates

1976

Maker
Pat Steir
Medium

Drypoint, with soft-ground etching and aquatint, on heavy ivory handmade paper produced by HMP Papers

Dimensions

plate: 25 × 25 cm (9 13/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
sheet: 26.5 × 26.5 cm (10 7/16 × 10 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of James Kraft, Class of 1957

Object Number
x1993-278 g
Place Made

North America, United States, New York, New York

Inscription

Numbered in graphit, verso lower left: 4//35

Signed and dated in graphite, verso lower right: Pat Steir 76

Titled in graphite, verso: Identity

Marks/Labels/Seals

Copyright and workshop stamp in gray ink, verso lower left

Workshop number in graphite, lower left: PS 76-042E

Culture
American
Type
prints, drypoints
Materials
printing ink
Techniques
etching (printing process), aquatint
Subject
grids (layout features), burial mounds, letters (signs)

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