Hummeromachracy, from Kollwitz Tribute Portfolio

Artist Eric Avery (American, born 1948)

CultureGerman, American

Date2005

MediumLinocut on handmade paper with glow-in-the-dark pigment

Dimensionsimage: 12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
sheet: 18 1/8 x 14 3/16 in. (46 x 36 cm)

Classificationsprints

Credit LineGift of Beth Grabowski

Object number2010.58.2

DescriptionHummer vehicle and child holding a candle, in a city street. One print from a Portfolio of 21 prints by 21 various artists, in a cloth covered portfolio case. (Note: portfolio title page is numbered 1 of 23, but prints are all numbered 23/23.)
.1 Alex Amr, Untitled, lithograph, image: 5 3/4 x 4 7/8 in.; sheet: 5 3/4 x 4 7/8 in.; mount: 17 3/4 x 13 7/8 in.
.2 Eric Avery, Hummeromachracy, linoleum block print on hand made paper with glow in the dark pigment. Printed on Vandercook Letterpress. Daniel Smith Traditional Relief Black ink, image: 12 x 16 in.; sheet: 18 1/8 x 14 3/16 in.
.3 Marc Brunier-Mestas, Douce Nuit/Sweet Night, linoleum relief print, image: 16 x 10 in.; sheet: 17 11/16 x 13 3/4 in.
.4 Manfred Butzmann, Paar an der Musikbox, etching and aquatint, image: 11 11/16 x 9 in.; sheet: 17 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.
.5 Alicia Candiani, Battlefields, digital It is a digital print on a limited edition of Fabriano special paper plus a special process that I invented to add layers of colors to the digital print in traditional etching press (I called it planographic process), image: 6 7/8 x 9 15/16 in.; sheet: 13 7/8 x 17 5/8 in.
.6 Manuel Castro Cobos, Käthe Fragile, solar plate on silkscreen, image: 13 7/8 x 17 11/16 in.; sheet: 13 7/8 x 17 11/16 in.
.7 Sue coe, Abu Ghraib "The Americans brought electricity faster to my ass than to my house.", woodcut printed in red and black on Kitakata paper, image: 15 11/16 x 11 3/16 in.; sheet: 17 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.
.8 Warrington Colescott, Käthe Despair and Defiance, soft ground etching, spit bite etching, aquatint, a little drypoint, intaglio inking a la poupeé in raw umber and black with stenciled relief roll in "chain saw green" and "fire red", image: 13 3/4 x 17 3/4 in.; sheet: 13 3/4 x 18 in.
.9 Sheila Flynn, Graven Images - the traces we leave behind, embossing with snap attachments, image: 11 1/16 x 14 1/8 in.; sheet: 17 5/8 x 13 7/8 in.
.10 Stefan Friedemann, Twilight over Moritzburg, three-color-etching, printed with three plates, technique of etching: vernis mou, aquatinta and reservage, image: 6 7/16 x 9 3/8 in.; sheet: 13 11/16 x 17 11/16 in.
.11 Peter Gourfain, A-Train, woodcut printed in black ink on newspaper, image: 14 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.; sheet: 17 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.
.12 Beth Grabowski, Complicity, scorched milk, intaglio and screen-print on German etching paper, image: 17 5/8 x 13 3/4 in.; sheet: 17 5/8 x 13 3/4 in.
.13 Juli Haas, Mother, etching with hand coloring, image: 12 5/8 x 9 in.; sheet: 17 5/8 x 13 7/8 in.
.14 Fred Hagstrom, One of Many, (medium not provided), image: 17 9/16 x 13 9/16 in.; sheet: 17 9/16 x 13 9/16 in.
.15 Joanna Kaiser, K, intaglio, image: 9 7/8 x 6 7/8 in.; sheet: 17 5/8 x 14 in.
.16 Ingrid Ledent, Time, lithographie, image: 17 11/16 x 13 3/4 in.; sheet: 17 11/16 x 13 3/4 in.
.17 Andrzej Plaskowski, The Doll Maker, relief, image: 11 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.; sheet: 13 7/8 x 17 3/4 in.
.18 Dominic Thorburn, Mothers of Africa - Homage to Käthe Kollwitz, woodcut printed in warm black, image: 11 x 13 7/8 in.; sheet: 13 13/16 x 17 3/4 in.
.19 Dariusz Vasina, The Stormy Weather, relief, image: 11 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.; sheet: 17 3/4 x 13 13/16 in.
.20 Amira Wasfy, Right of Return, waterless lithography, image: 15 5/16 x 11 11/16 in.; sheet: 17 3/4 x 13 7/8 in.
.21 Zheng Xue Wu, Untitled, photo collagraph, image: 13 3/4 x 13 13/16 in.; sheet: 17 3/4 x 13 13/16 in.

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