Sleeping

Print

Purdue University Galleries

Name/Title

Sleeping

Entry/Object ID

2009.05.006

Type of Print

Lithograph

Artwork Details

Medium

Paper

Acquisition

Accession

2009.05

Source or Donor

Maija Dragune

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

A Gift of the Artist

Made/Created

Artist

Maija Dragune

Date made

2005

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Tertiary Object Term

Lithograph

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Print, Planographic

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Dimensions

Dimension Description

30 x 34

Height

19-1/4 in

Width

23-5/8 in

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

"For forty years, Dragune has produced illustrated books, lithographs and watercolors at her home in Riga, Latvia. Her graphic compositions are mainly landscapes that have a romantic theme with a strong sense of human presence. But the work here contains a macabre sense of the surreal and the sense that the sleeping individual is safer in her dreams than with the impending danger of those characters lurking beside her. However, as they themselves are bound together, and masked as she herself was, perhaps they too are victims of an unknown menace and are simply waiting for her to awaken..."