A snarling gorilla-like face with bared fangs and tears streaming from its eyes.

Walton Ford

It Makes Me Think of that Awful Day on the Island

2011

Not on view

10 works in the collection
3 exhibitions
View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/42054

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 22 × 30 1/4 in. (55.9 × 76.8 cm) Image (irregular): 21 1/4 × 28 3/4 in. (54 × 73 cm)

Accession number
2012.156.1

Edition
1/50

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

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/42054

Part of a series:
SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics): Exit Art Portfolio 2011
7 works

Lush rainforest canopy with diverse birds, butterflies, and a small monkey reaching for fruit.
Two large wet flower petals, one orange and one white, covered in water droplets against a dark background.
An orange parrot silhouette perched on a branch against a plain white background.
A large gorilla head screams with tears streaming from its eyes and bared fangs.
Large brown termite illustration positioned over a dense band of small winged insects and a brown stripe.
A stylized multi-story building with rounded balconies and patterned facade in warm colors.
Repeated spotted seed pods and blooming flowers form a vertical, hand-drawn botanical pattern.

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