2008.307: Stitch
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2008.307
- People
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Liliana Porter, Argentinian (Buenos Aires, Argentina born 1941)
- Title
- Stitch
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1970
- Culture
- Argentinian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/330592
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Softground etching on off-white wove paper with black yarn
- Technique
- Softground etching
- Dimensions
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sheet: 78 × 56 cm (30 11/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
platemark: 44.7 × 32.5 cm (17 5/8 × 12 13/16 in.)
image: 48.9 × 32.5 cm (19 1/4 × 12 13/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: l.l in pencil: "Stitch" a/p
- inscription: l.r in pencil: Lilliana Porter, 70
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- Artist Proof
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
- Copyright
- © Liliana Porter
- Accession Year
- 2008
- Object Number
- 2008.307
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Commentary
- First, as part of the printmaking group New York Graphic Workshop, and then on her own, Porter has been one of the most influential artists of her generation to emerge from Latin America. Both of these prints were part of a series that Porter started in 1967 when, as she says "tried to simplify my vocabulary and start to work with what I perceived at the time as simple images: a string, a wrinkle of paper, a small shadow, a nail, etc." Porter is still interested in the play of the represented image and the real object being at the same level, as in the actual string and the soft ground etching of the string in Stitch. Cover for a Foreign Object references for Porter things that are never completely understood and that always remain on a mysterious level.
Exhibition History
- A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, Radcliffe Institute Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, 02/05/2024 - 06/22/2024
Verification Level
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