Trenton Doyle Hancock

Page of Enlightenment

2005

Centered skull with red staining and handwritten title "The Oossified Theosophied" above.
Centered skull with red staining and handwritten title "The Oossified Theosophied" above.

Trenton Doyle Hancock, Page of Enlightenment, 2005. Aquatint, etching, and embossed etching, sheet: 25 × 19 1/2 in. (63.5 × 49.5 cm) Plate: 17 15/16 × 12 in. (45.6 × 30.5 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Print Committee 2006.66.8. © Trenton Doyle Hancock

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Date
2005

Classification
Prints

Medium
Aquatint, etching, and embossed etching

Dimensions
Sheet: 25 × 19 1/2 in. (63.5 × 49.5 cm) Plate: 17 15/16 × 12 in. (45.6 × 30.5 cm)

Accession number
2006.66.8

Edition
6/35 | 7 APs, 4 APs, 2 TPs, 1 BAT

Publication
Printed by Harlan & Weaver; published by James Cohan Gallery; published by Dunn and Brown Contemporary

Credit line
Purchase with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© Trenton Doyle Hancock

API
artworks/27990

Part of a series:
The Ossified Theosophied
8 works

A surreal three-tier pink fountain surrounded by odd creatures and colorful round shapes.
Surreal vertical collage showing strange cartoonish creatures connected by pink tubing to a bucket.
A surreal monochrome figure holds a skull releasing a colorful striped balloon over pink flowers.
Centered skull with red staining and handwritten title "The Oossified Theosophied" above.
A white hand holds several brightly colored patterned candies against a black geometric background.
Abstract anatomical poster shows a skeletal figure with a dripping red circle and colorful organs above the word SESOM.
Poster-like artwork titled "Theosophied" with a rainbow color bar above a block of handwritten text.
A skeletal figure projects a rainbow beam toward a tangled mechanical organism in a surreal cave.


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