Three sailors in a chaotic boat haul chains and a treasure chest amid tangled ropes and gear.

Thomas Huck

High Water Hog Blues

2000

Not on view

15 works in the collection
1 exhibition
View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/19817

Classification
Prints

Medium
Woodcut

Dimensions
Sheet: 34 1/16 × 30 in. (86.5 × 76.2 cm) Image: 29 3/4 × 25 13/16 in. (75.6 × 65.6 cm)

Accession number
2002.498.4

Edition
17/20

Publication
Printed and published by Evil Press

Credit line
Gift of Milton D. Rothschild, II

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/19817

Part of a series:
2 Weeks in August: Fourteen Rural Absurdities
15 works

Two skeletal figures lie together on a cluttered bed surrounded by scattered bones and objects.
Three lively performers dance on a crowded stage while audience members watch and cheer.
A monster truck labeled "KONG" crushes debris while crowds cheer and two women pose on it.
Grim grave diggers pry open a coffin while a suited corpse rises amid a crowded cemetery.
Three distressed people struggle among flying chickens and tangled machinery in a chaotic black-and-white scene.
Three fishermen strain to haul tangled ropes, crates, and crab-filled catch aboard a rough wooden boat.
Group of workers wearing bowl-shaped hats sorting and holding large piles of small round objects.
Rescue workers pull injured people from burning, crumpled cars amid a chaotic roadside wreck.
A woman in a full skirt dances energetically with a man amid a crowd of pigs.
A crowded dance floor with people energetically dancing under a disco ball in a club.

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