Richard Prince

Black Jokes

1991–1992

Not on view

Date
1991–1992

Classification
Prints

Medium
Etching and aquatint

Dimensions
Sheet: 18 1/8 × 21 3/8 in. (46 × 54.3 cm) Plate: 10 7/8 × 15 7/8 in. (27.6 × 40.3 cm)

Accession number
95.94.2

Edition
9/40

Publication
Published by Edition Julie Sylvester

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Robert B. and Emilie W. Betts Foundation, The List Purchase Fund, Brooke Garber Neidich and the Robert Wilson Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/38207

Part of a series:
Black Jokes
11 works

Small handwritten paragraph centered on a large white sheet of paper, text barely legible.
Handwritten notes and scribbles appear in a vertical column on a mostly blank white sheet.
Small handwritten notes and scribbles centered on a large white sheet of paper.
Handwritten notes and scribbles in black ink centered on a large white sheet of paper.
Small handwritten note centered on a large white sheet of paper with brief lines of text.
Handwritten text reads, "My parents kept me in a closet for years until I was fifteen."
A small handwritten note appears centered on a large white sheet of paper.
Small handwritten notes centered on a large blank white sheet of paper.
Small handwritten note centered on a large blank white sheet of paper.
Handwritten note centered on white paper reads a man saying he'll see friends Tuesday or Wednesday.


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