The Bruce High Quality Foundation

Sometimes I Want to Kill the President

2008

Abstract blue, yellow, and red shapes form a smoking figure with a speech bubble expressing desire to kill the president.

Abstract blue, yellow, and red shapes form a smoking figure with a speech bubble expressing desire to kill the president.

Not on view

Date
2008

Classification
Prints

Medium
Monoprint, watercolor and graphite

Dimensions
Sheet: 30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm) Image (irregular): 16 1/4 × 12 in. (41.3 × 30.5 cm)

Accession number
2012.153.2

Edition
1/50

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Director's Discretionary Fund

Rights and reproductions
© The Bruce High Quality Foundation

API
artworks/42034

Part of a series:
Expose: Exit Art Portfolio 2008
7 works

A surreal green face with braided hair connected to floating eyes and a small upside-down figure.

A large pale human head outline rendered in fine white dots against a light blue background.

Two tall column figures topped with textured round tops, each marked by a red diagonal arrow.

A crowded living room shows a blonde woman standing on a chair holding a green hose while others lie and watch.

Abstract blue, yellow, and red shapes form a smoking figure with a speech bubble expressing desire to kill the president.

A bold, colorful geometric compass rose with eight pointed star on split blue and cream background.

Abstract composition showing swirling waves, floating black brush marks, a blue diagonal stroke, and geometric outlines.

The Bruce High Quality Foundation
3 works in the collection, 1 exhibition

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