William Burroughs

"All the Seven Deadly Sins..."

1991

Gothic-style text describing the seven deadly sins printed on a decorative blue-splashed page.
Gothic-style text describing the seven deadly sins printed on a decorative blue-splashed page.

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Date
1991

Classification
Prints

Medium
Screenprint

Dimensions
Sheet: 45 × 31 in. (114.3 × 78.7 cm)

Accession number
2005.120.1

Edition
62/90

Publication
Printed by Durham Press, Inc.; published by Lococo-Mulder

Credit line
Transfer, from the Frances Mulhall Achilles Library, Special Collections, Whitney Museum of American Art

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/38225

Part of a series:
The Seven Deadly Sins
14 works

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Central vertical stack of distorted white mask faces surrounded by red and gold chaotic brushstrokes.
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A page filled with dense gothic-style text discussing aliens, America, and violent imagery.
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Decorative gothic paragraph describing sin as a repeating, deadly cycle, printed on marbled paper.

William Burroughs
14 works in the collection

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