Rick Bartow

American, 1946 - 2016

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This print displays a blend of jagged lines and curved forms, creating an abstract composition. A creature is in the center, with the body and hands of a human but the head of a black crow or raven. The creature’s beak is turned to the left, and we can see one bright red eye. Its hands are prominently visible, both partially raised with palms facing us. One of the creature’s knees also seems to be raised, suggesting that it is frozen in some kind of pose, perhaps mid-dance. Its body is mostly black and white, with some highlights of bright red and green. There is the outline of another hand near the top-right corner. The background is mostly off-white paper, but there are some dots and thin lines across it, as well as two small rectangles of red and green near the upper-left and upper-right corners.
Rick Bartow, Robert Franklin, Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Crow Dance, 1988, color offset lithograph on wove Arches paper, Gift of Funds from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, 2023.22.5

Crow Dance

Rick Bartow, Robert Franklin, Brandywine Workshop and Archives · 1988 · color offset lithograph on wove Arches paper ·  Accession ID  2023.22.5