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HOW A GREAT DAILY ORGAN IS TURNED OUT

Printer Aldo Crommelynck French, born Monaco
Publisher Waddington Graphics British
1987–90
Not on view
Hamilton’s career is marked by his fascination with James Joyce’s novel Ulysses (1922). To illustrate an episode in the book that takes place in the editorial offices of the Freeman’s Journal, Hamilton worked with the Parisian master printer Aldo Crommelynck to combine the twenty individual plates from his earlier Joyce-inspired portfolio, IRELAND A NATION (1988), into the format of a single newspaper
broadsheet. The result is a catalogue of the many intaglio techniques Hamilton used to translate Joyce’s stylistic jumps and linguistic references into pictorial equivalents.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: HOW A GREAT DAILY ORGAN IS TURNED OUT
  • Artist: Richard Hamilton (British, London 1922–2011 Oxfordshire)
  • Printer: Aldo Crommelynck (French (born Monaco) 1931–2008 Paris)
  • Publisher: Waddington Graphics
  • Date: 1987–90
  • Medium: Intaglio
  • Edition: 77/120 + 12 artist's proofs
  • Dimensions: 30 in. × 22 1/16 in. (76.2 × 56 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Reba and Dave Williams Gift, 1997
  • Object Number: 1997.387.2
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Richard Hamilton
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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