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 1/16 in. (29.5 × 40.8 cm) Image: 8 3/8 × 10 15/16 in. (21.3 × 27.8 cm)

Accession number
96.68.7

Series
Cotton Series

Edition
Ed. 10

Publication
Printed by Will Barnet

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/10480

See also

Lamar Baker
6 works in the collection, 2 exhibitions

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