Hearts and a Watercolor

1969

Jim Dine

Associated Names
Jim Dine

Artist, American, born 1935

The image displays a series of heart shapes arranged in two rows on a neutral background. Each heart features a distinct texture or style. In the top row, the hearts are outlined with layered contour lines, filled with repetitive looped patterns, or rendered with feathery strokes, creating a hairy appearance. The final heart in this row is sketched with random, overlapping lines. The bottom row includes a heart painted with a watercolor gradient, a heart shaded with scales resembling a pine cone, a heart with a dense scribble texture, and a heart with a speckled pattern resembling worn stone.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black and watercolor on Crisbrook handmade paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Artist

  • Dimensions

    plate: 34.61 × 54.93 cm (13 5/8 × 21 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 58.74 × 78.74 cm (23 1/8 × 31 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.11.10

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Galerie Mikro 1970, no. 60

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gift of the artist, 2014.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1970

  • Galerie Mikro Berlin. Jim Dine: Complete Graphics. Berlin, 1970. (essays by John Russell, Tony Towle, and Wieland Schmied)

Inscriptions

in graphite, below plate mark: Jim DIne A/P 1969

Wikidata ID

Q77006253

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