Five Paintbrushes (third state)

1973

Jim Dine

Artist, American, born 1935

Printed with black against cream-white paper, ten paintbrushes with their handles facing up and bristles down are lined up in this horizontal etching. The white handle of each brush is shaded heavily around its edge with dense lines and hatching. Sketch-like, swirling lines and spots like pockmarks speckle the entire surface. The bristles of each brush are long and unruly, like uncut hair.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with drypoint in black on Copperplate Deluxe paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Artist

  • Dimensions

    plate: 52.07 × 69.53 cm (20 1/2 × 27 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 74.61 × 90.17 cm (29 3/8 × 35 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.11.18

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Krens 1977, no. 137, iii/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gift of the artst, 2014.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2016

  • Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 130.

Bibliography

1977

  • Krens, Thomas. Jim Dine Prints: 1970-1977. New York, 1977.

Inscriptions

in graphite, below plate mark, lower left: AP Jim Dine 1973

Wikidata ID

Q77006261

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