Mommy Why?

Artist and publisher Joan Snyder American
Printer Chip Elwell American
1983–84
Not on view

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Object Information
  • Title: Mommy Why?
  • Artist and publisher: Joan Snyder (American, born Highland Park, New Jersey, 1940)
  • Printer: Chip Elwell , with the artist
  • Date: 1983–84
  • Medium: Woodcut hand-inked with oil paint by the artist on Yamato mulberry paper
  • Dimensions: 20 × 26 in. (50.8 × 66 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: John B. Turner Fund, 2023
  • Object Number: 2023.34
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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