Ephemera Series #3

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1974

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Research Projects

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Variant Date: 1975.
Medium: Etching.
Print Image Size: 20 5/8 x 17 3/4 inches.
Print Edition: 10 (with 4 artist's proofs).
Alternate Medium: Color photo-etching.
Ink(s): yellow-brown, black.
Support: Rives BFK paper.
Tightly cropped portrait of President Richard Nixon, with maggot and insect forms overwhelming his deeply contoured face and spilling over into the border. Text below the image reads "Ephemera #3." First state proofs [CMA 2013.057.046] are printed solely in black ink. The same image of Nixon appears in Ephemera Series #5 [CMA 2001.034.240].

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