990-2
Eight
Studies for the Book of Genesis
990
Light
screenprints on Whatman Print Matt paper
From
hand color-separated photo stencils
Edition
of 50 with 8 AP, 2 pp, 6 HC, 1 BAT, 1 AR, 1 CL
Screens
destroyed
Image:
l9 5/8 x 14¾ (49.8 x 36.5)
Paper:
25 x 19 1/8 (63.5 x (48.6)
Each
print signed bottom right, numbered bottom left in pencil below the
image;
no printer's chop mark.
Published
by the Limited Editions Club, New York; printed at Osiris Screen
Printing,
New York (George Drexel, master printer).
Also
printed in two additional formats:
Exhibition
portfolio
Edition
of 22 with 5 AP, 2 pp, 4 HC, 1 TP, 1 BAT, 1 AR, 1 CL
Image:
195/8 x 14¾ (49.8 x 36.5)
Paper:
26 x 40 (66 x 101.6) Each print signed and inscribed in manner
consistent
with regular edition. Portfolio titled Eight Passages. Each
screenprint
trimmed to image and chine collee onto right-hand side of St. Armand
paper
bearing captions lithographed on left side from mylars hand written by
the artist. Lithography and chine collee by Stone Press Editions,
Seattle
(Kent Lovelace, master printer).
Book
Edition of 400 with 50 HC
Each
print signed by artist.
The
prints illustrate and accompany the King James version of the book of
Genesis.
Note:
The full edition information in both portfolio editions incorrectly
states
that the book edition consisted of 425 copies.
"I
was baptized in the Abyssinian Baptist Church [in Harlem] in about
1932.
There I attended church, I attended Sunday school, and I remember the
ministers
giving very passionate sermons pertaining to the Creation. This was
over
fifty years ago, and you know, these things stay with you even though
you
don't realize what an impact these experiences are making on you at the
time. As I was doing the series I think that this was in the back of my
mind, hearing this minister talk about these things"
