purdahe=middleaste:middleweste

Print

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UTA Fine Art Collections

Front of print: A large black and white intaglio print on deckle edged paper. Inside the impression of the central plate is a pair of women's portraits: the one on the left is shrouded in a burka, with her arms crossed and hands clutching her shoulders; the one on the right is wearing only a bra and has a tattoo of a knife through a heart on the left side of her chest. She otherwise has short hair, many piercings, vertical stripes going across her eyes, and is smoking a cigarette she holds in her left hand, with her arms crossed. Both women are stylized with large heads and features and very large, bony hands. They are encompassed in a pair of stylized arches/alcoves.
Front of print

A large black and white intaglio print on deckle edged paper. Inside the impression of the central plate is a pair of women's portraits: the one on the left is shrouded in a burka, with her arms crossed and hands clutching her shoulders; the one on the right is wearing only a bra and has a tattoo of a knife through a heart on the left side of her chest. She otherwise has short hair, many piercings, vertical stripes going across her eyes, and is smoking a cigarette she holds in her left hand, with her arms crossed. Both women are stylized with large heads and features and very large, bony hands. They are encompassed in a pair of stylized arches/alcoves.

Name/Title

purdahe=middleaste:middleweste

Entry/Object ID

2019.P-G.147

Description

A large black and white intaglio print on deckle edged paper. Inside the impression of the central plate is a pair of women's portraits: the one on the left is shrouded in a burka, with her arms crossed and hands clutching her shoulders; the one on the right is wearing only a bra and has a tattoo of a knife through a heart on the left side of her chest. She otherwise has short hair, many piercings, vertical stripes going across her eyes, and is smoking a cigarette she holds in her left hand, with her arms crossed. Both women are stylized with large heads and features and very large, bony hands. They are encompassed in a pair of stylized arches/alcoves.

Context

A pair of women inside arched alcoves, one of them shrouded in a burka while the other wears very little and has a cigarette, tattoo, piercings, and short hair.

Collection

Palmeri-Goodstein Research Print Collection

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Koreloy Wildrekinde-McWhirter

Role

Artist

Edition

Edition Size

43

Edition Number

27

Lexicon

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Intaglio prints

Search Terms

Muslim, middle east, purdah, burka, tattoo, piercing, smoking, cigarette, feminism

Legacy Lexicon

Object Name

Print

Dimensions

Height

21-3/4 in

Width

22-1/4 in

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Artist Nancy Palmeri, MFA

Acquisition Method

Gift

Acquisition Date

Aug 2019