Mommy Why?

Artist and publisher Joan Snyder American

Printer Chip Elwell American

1983–84

Not on view

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Provenance

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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My Work

Multiple artists/makers

1997

Resurrection Etching (WP1), Joan Snyder American, Photo etching, soft-ground etching, sugar lift etching, and open bite (with some sections, at left, collaged) on Arches paper — Resurrection Etching (WP1)
Joan Snyder
1978–81

Resurrection Etching (WP5), Joan Snyder American, Photo etching, soft-ground etching, sugar lift etching, open bite, aquatint, and line etching on Arches paper — Resurrection Etching (WP5)
Joan Snyder
1978–81

Resurrection Etching (WP6), Joan Snyder American, Photo etching, soft-ground etching, sugar lift etching, open bite, aquatint, line etching with collage, graphite, and watercolor on Arches paper — Resurrection Etching (WP6)
Joan Snyder
1978–81

Resurrection Etching (WP7), Joan Snyder American, Photo etching, soft-ground etching, sugar lift etching, open bite, color aquatint (from one plate), and line etching on Arches paper — Resurrection Etching (WP7)
Joan Snyder
1978–81

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