Shin, 1998

  • Lynne Avadenka, American, born 1955
  • Lynne Avadenka, American, born 1955
  • Land Marks Press, American

Etching, aquatint, drypoint, mezzotint, and monoprint printed in color ink on wove paper

  • Sheet: 12 1/8 × 18 1/8 inches (30.8 × 46 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, with funds from Beverly Baker in memory of Morris D. Baker

1999.24.21

Embossed, below papier collé, lower left: ש [Hebrew character Shin]

Printed, in red ink, on papier collé, left half of the sheet: MOTHER | RULER OVER FIRE | HEAD OF THE SOUL | TOOTH Printed, in black ink, on the same sheet of papier collé, just to the right of the text printed in red: SWEET SLOPE, | SOFT SWELL. | SOLE NOURISHMENT | UNTIL / TINY TEETH | LEAVE THEIR MARKS.

1999-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Lynne Avadenka, Shin, 1998, etching, aquatint, drypoint, mezzotint, and monoprint printed in color ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, with funds from Beverly Baker in memory of Morris D. Baker, 1999.24.21.