About the Artwork
Mickey Gets Cancer
1990
Sue Coe
born 1951
English
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on off white wove paper
Plate: 5 × 3 inches (12.7 × 7.6 cm) Sheet: 19 × 11 inches (48.3 × 27.9 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Paul Binai in memory of Paul E. Gilleo
2003.64
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Markings
Signed and dated, in plate, vertically, lower left edge: Sue Coe 90 Signed and dated, in pencil, lower right: Sue Coe 90
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 126 Inscribed, in plate, upper edge: MICKEY has been genetically | altered to devlop cancer Inscribed, lower edge: Patented by Dow Inc.
Drystamp, along lower left of sheet: COE | (cat's head) | MURRAY (contained within a vertical oval) Marks: [figure of a standing chick stamped in green ink just to the left of the COE/MURRAY drystamp]
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Paul Binai
2003-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Sue Coe, Mickey Gets Cancer, 1990, etching printed in black ink on off white wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Paul Binai in memory of Paul E. Gilleo, 2003.64.
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