Autobiography: Past & Present I

1989

Howardena Pindell

Associated Names
Howardena Pindell

Artist, American, born 1943

Robert Franklin

Printer, American, born 1930

Brandywine Workshop and Archives

Publisher

The image displays an abstract composition with shapes and lines creating silhouettes of faces and hands reaching towards the center from opposite sides. Colorful rectangles float around resembling pieces of paper and familiar objects like eyes, faces, and artifacts are scattered throughout. Red and purple dots are sprinkled across the image.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color offset lithograph and screenprint on two sheets of wove Arches paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Funds from the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation

  • Dimensions

    overall: 54.9 × 152.4 cm (21 5/8 × 60 in.)
    sheet (each): 54.9 × 76.2 cm (21 5/8 × 30 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2023.22.40.a-b

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia; gifted to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

a) "Howardena D. Pindell 46/66" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. "Autobiography: Past, 1988-89" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand.
b) "Howardena D. Pindell 44/55" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. "Autobiography: Present, 1988-89" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand.

Markings

None.

Watermarks

Arches

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