Sue Coe

Pig Improvement Company

1989

A man holds a smoking test tube while pigs surround him under a "Pig Improvement Co." sign.
A man holds a smoking test tube while pigs surround him under a "Pig Improvement Co." sign.

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Date
1989

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching and aquatint

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 18 7/8 × 11 3/4 in. (47.9 × 29.8 cm) Plate: 12 9/16 × 9 1/4 in. (31.9 × 23.5 cm)

Accession number
2002.306.8

Edition
Impression 22 | Edition possibly 74

Publication
Printed by Steve Murray; published by Sue Coe

Credit line
Gift of Judith Alexander

Rights and reproductions
© 1989 Sue Coe

API
artworks/20993

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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