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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M24236
People
Lesley Dill, American (Bronxville, NY born 1950)
Title
Throat: "I am afraid to own a body, I am afraid to own a soul"
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: A Word Made Flesh... (The Soul Has Bandaged Moments)
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1994
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/190530

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Photolithograph, etching, drypoint, and stitching on Japanese paper
Technique
Photolithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 76 x 56 cm (29 15/16 x 22 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: LESLEY DILL 1994
  • inscription: yes, lower edge, left corner, graphite, handwritten, signed, in artist's hand: LESLEY DILL 1994 15/25
  • inscription: on the throat of the figure depicted, printer's ink, photolithography and etching, in artist's hand: I / am Afraid / to own a / BODY -- I / am Afraid / to own / a / SOUL [a quote from Emily Dickinson]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Student Print Rental Program, transfer; to Print Department, October 4, 1999.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Student Print Rental Collection
Copyright
© Lesley Dill
Accession Year
1999
Object Number
M24236
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p. 99, ill.

Verification Level

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