Youth and the Maiden

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Medium

color spitbite etching, heliorelief woodcut, softground etching, and drypoint with hand-painting on three sheets of Arches Cover wove paper

Dimensions

sheet (a): 199.07 × 61.6 cm (78 3/8 × 24 1/4 in.) sheet (b): 199.07 × 232.09 cm (78 3/8 × 91 3/8 in.) sheet (c): 199.07 × 61.6 cm (78 3/8 × 24 1/4 in.) overall: 199.07 × 355.28 cm (78 3/8 × 139 7/8 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Graphicstudio/University of South Florida and the Artist in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1990.72.2.a-c

About the Artist

Jim Dine

Jim Dine, born James Lewis Dine on June 16, 1935, in Cincinnati, Ohio, grew up in a family of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who owned a hardware store, where he spent much time surrounded by tools that would later become central motifs in his art. After his mother's death at age 12, he largely cared for himself, fostering an early independence. Dine attended Walnut Hills High School and took ...

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