id:			163455
accession number:	2004.34
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.34
updated:		2023-08-24 00:04:46.661000

Born, 2002. Kiki Smith (American, b. 1954), ULAE (Universal Limited Art Editions, 1446 N. Clinton Ave., Bay Shore, NY 11706). Color lithograph; sheet: 172.9 x 142.5 cm (68 1/16 x 56 1/8 in.); image: 172.9 x 141.2 cm (68 1/16 x 55 9/16 in.); framed: 180.3 x 151.1 cm (71 x 59 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro 2004.34 © Kiki Smith

title:				Born
title in original language:	
series:				
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creation date:			2002
creation date earliest:		2002
creation date latest:		2002
current location:		
creditline:			Gift of Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro
copyright:			© Kiki Smith

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culture:	America, 21st century
technique:	color lithograph
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Lithograph
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Kiki Smith (American, b. 1954)  - artist

* ULAE (Universal Limited Art Editions, 1446 N. Clinton Ave., Bay Shore, NY 11706)  - published by

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measurements: Sheet: 172.9 x 142.5 cm (68 1/16 x 56 1/8 in.); Image: 172.9 x 141.2 cm (68 1/16 x 55 9/16 in.); Framed: 180.3 x 151.1 cm (71 x 59 1/2 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	28 with 7 artist's proofs and 2 printer's proofs

support materials:

	description:	Saunders Waterford HP wove paper
	watermarks:	

inscriptions:

	inscription:	lower right, in graphite: Kiki Smith 2002; lower left, in graphite: 3/28
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Fresh Prints: The Nineties to Now
	opening date:   2015-03-22T00:00:00
	<i>Fresh Prints: The Nineties to Now</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 22-July 26, 2015).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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fun fact:
Kiki Smith has worked since 1989 with ULAE, the printers who published this work.

digital description:


wall description:
Kiki Smith is interested in feminist concerns and content, and her most recent work presents myths and fairy tales with subtle feminist revisions. Since 1999 Smith has been preoccupied with “Little Red Riding Hood,” a story of a girl who takes food to her ailing grandmother. In the forest, the girl meets a wolf who, learning her purpose, rushes ahead and devours her grandmother. Little Red Riding Hood meets the same fate when she arrives at her grandmother’s cottage. <em>Born</em> illustrates the episode in which, in some versions of the tale, a hunter saves the girl and her grandmother by cutting open the wolf’s stomach. By representing Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother as standing upright in cloaks, and the wolf as a semicircle, Smith alludes to Old Master paintings depicting the Virgin Mary on a crescent moon. However, Smith rendered both females as self-portraits; thus, the scene also suggests many feminine apprehensions, from adolescent rites of passage to aging. Although best known as the sculptor whose three-dimensional constructions reintroduced the human figure as an important realm for artistic investigation and discovery, Smith also makes printmaking an integral part of her work.
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