Sue Coe

Hot House Lambs

1989

Small dark etching showing rows of hanging carcasses above three silhouetted figures pointing upward.
Small dark etching showing rows of hanging carcasses above three silhouetted figures pointing upward.

Recto

Not on view

Date
1989

Classification
Prints

Medium
Aquatint and etching

Dimensions
Sheet: 18 7/8 × 11 3/4 in. (47.9 × 29.8 cm) Plate: 4 5/16 × 4 3/4 in. (11 × 12.1 cm)

Accession number
2002.306.5

Edition
Impression 13 | Edition possibly 65, Incomplete edition 500

Publication
Printed by Steve Murray; published by Sue Coe

Credit line
Gift of Judith Alexander

Rights and reproductions
© 1989 Sue Coe

API
artworks/20990

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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