Knowledge Bank

Variant Date: 1968.

Medium: Woodcut.

Print Image Size: 34 x 19 7/8 inches.

Print Edition: 40 (with 3 artist's proofs).

Alternate Medium: Woodcut with lace collage.

Ink(s): black.

Support: laid paper.

A full-length portrait of the wealthy, yet notoriously bad, concert singer Florence Foster Jenkins, with wings attached to the back of her dress. A Yiddish proverb at the top is translated by the artist as "a person who is wealthy is not only beautiful, but sings beautifully as well."