Lamar Baker

Textile Tangle
1938

A black and white surrealist artwork depicting oversized sewing equipment and tiny human figures interacting with them. The scene includes a giant needle threading a rooftop, a colossal thimble, and a spool of thread, with a backdrop of a cloudy sky and a building with large windows. The artwork is signed by the artist in the lower left corner and has a title and edition number on the bottom margin.
A black and white surrealist artwork depicting oversized sewing equipment and tiny human figures interacting with them. The scene includes a giant needle threading a rooftop, a colossal thimble, and a spool of thread, with a backdrop of a cloudy sky and a building with large windows. The artwork is signed by the artist in the lower left corner and has a title and edition number on the bottom margin.

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Date
1938

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 11 5/8 × 16 1/16in. (29.5 × 40.8 cm) Image: 8 3/8 × 10 15/16in. (21.3 × 27.8 cm)

Accession number
96.68.7

Series
Cotton Series

Edition
Ed. 10

Publication
Printed by Will Barnet

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Lamar Baker
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