Joan Snyder

Things Have Tears and We Know Suffering

1983–1984

Abstract painting showing a distressed figure shouting orange light toward the right, surrounded by scratched words.
Abstract painting showing a distressed figure shouting orange light toward the right, surrounded by scratched words.

Joan Snyder, Things Have Tears and We Know Suffering, 1983–1984. Woodcut with oil, sheet (Irregular): 25 3/4 × 25 1/2 in. (65.4 × 64.8 cm) Image: 18 × 18 in. (45.7 × 45.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Print Committee 93.95

Recto

Not on view

Date
1983–1984

Classification
Prints

Medium
Woodcut with oil

Dimensions
Sheet (Irregular): 25 3/4 × 25 1/2 in. (65.4 × 64.8 cm) Image: 18 × 18 in. (45.7 × 45.7 cm)

Accession number
93.95

Edition
7/9 | 4 APs

Publication
Printed by Chip Elwell; published by Diane Villani Editions

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Print Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/8436




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