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Warrington Colescott

Artist
Warrington Colescott
(American, 1921 - 2018)
Title
In Birmingham Jail
Date
1963-1964
Medium
Etching, aquatint, and drypoint with roulette and found letterpress photo plate on handmade paper
Dimensions
17 7/8 x 23 11/16 in. Image
Credit
Gift of Mark and Helen Hooper
Accession No.
1981.68
Classification
Prints
Geography
United States

Related

1981, gifted by Mark and Helen Hooper (Manitowoc, WI) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Colescott, Warrington and Arthur Hove. "Progressive Printmakers: Wisconsin Artists and the Print Renaissance." Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. p. 59
  • Chapin, Mary Weaver. "The Prints of Warrington Colescott: a Catalogue Raisonne, 1948-2008." Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. p. 111, no. 73
  • Lidtke, Thomas D. and Annemarie Sawkins. "A Creative Plate: The History of Wisconsin Art." Cedarburg, WI: Cedarburg Art Museum, 2021. p. 280, fig. 5.33
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Warrington Colescott : Forty Years of Printmaking : A Retrospective, 1948-1988." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1988. pp. 38, 69, no. 76

  • Print in Protest: Chazen Museum of Art, 6/12/2018–9/16/2018
  • Progressive Printmakers: Wisconsin Artists and the Print Renaissance: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 2/10/2001–4/8/2001
  • Warrington Colescott: Forty Years of Printmaking: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 11/26/1988–10/1/1990

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