Sue Coe

The Hot Floor

1989

Two butchers lift a pig carcass on a tiled floor while a dog watches, titled "The Hot Floor."
Two butchers lift a pig carcass on a tiled floor while a dog watches, titled "The Hot Floor."

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Date
1989

Classification
Prints

Medium
Aquatint and etching

Dimensions
Sheet: 18 7/8 × 11 7/8 in. (47.9 × 30.2 cm) Plate: 7 3/4 × 7 5/16 in. (19.7 × 18.6 cm)

Accession number
2002.306.4

Edition
Impression 19 | Edition possibly 90

Publication
Printed by Steve Murray; published by Sue Coe

Credit line
Gift of Judith Alexander

Rights and reproductions
© 1989 Sue Coe

API
artworks/20989

Part of a series:
Porkopolis
14 works

A dense flock of sheep fills the field with a distant factory and smokestacks on the horizon.
Two tall, emaciated birds stand on a shoreline near a crescent moon and distant buildings.
A large grotesque head expels a stream of small animals and people toward a pile of livestock.
A lone cow stands behind barbed wire in a snowy field with utility poles and its shadow.
A herd of cows grazing in a wide field with mountains in the background.
Small dark etching showing rows of hanging carcasses above three silhouetted figures pointing upward.
A farmer walks with pigs toward a moonlit hill as birds circle overhead.
A man holds a smoking test tube while pigs surround him under a "Pig Improvement Co." sign.
A person collapses under a single hanging light as a line of shrouded figures watches.
A large booted figure looms over three pigs, one pig looking up nervously.

Sue Coe
25 works in the collection, 4 exhibitions

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