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Identification and Creation

Object Number
5.2005
People
Richard Serra, American (San Francisco, CA 1938 - 2024 Orient, NY)
Title
Stop B S
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
2004
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/51545

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Photolithograph
Dimensions
image: 150 x 122.5 cm (59 1/16 x 48 1/4 in.)
framed: 157.8 x 130.1 x 5 cm (62 1/8 x 51 1/4 x 1 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: graphite, at l.l., "Serra 2004"
  • inscription: lower edge, left, graphite, hand written, signed, in artist's hand: edition numbering, signature, date: 57/250 R Serra 2004
  • blind stamp: paper left corner, compression: publisher's (Gemini GEL) chopmark

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan
Copyright
© Richard Serra / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Object Number
5.2005
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
This print was produced as a benefit for a Kerry-Edwards political action committee. It was the alternate, so to speak, to a portfolio of ten prints by ten different artists; all of these were produced by Gemini (GEL). The portfolio also included this image by Serra, but in much reduced dimensions and with the inscription and much of the smudgy background eliminated. This large image must reproduce far more faithfully the original drawing by the artist. Serra's work is resolutely abstract; that the political imperative of the moment moved him to figuration makes this poster especially interesting. One wonders whether its impact will remain so strong after the photograph of a tortured Iraqi prisoner on which it was based has faded from our collective memory. There is, of course, a long history of printed images of war-time atrocities, and those by Goya, for instance, remain as searing as ever.

Exhibition History

  • DISSENT!, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 11/11/2006 - 02/25/2007
  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/23/2016 - 01/08/2017

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