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Barrow, Thomas F.
American (1938-)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Study For The Red Book

December, 1989
four color waterless planography
12.6 x 10.2 cm.
Gift of Jeffrey Ryan
90:0130:0001

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 42/310 / 89-5

INSCRIPTION: recto-(blindstamp) "21" (in pencil) "42/310" (initialed) "tfb" verso-(in pencil) "89-5" "Ragcoat" on print envelope-(printed) "Waterless Planography 21 Steps 413 Second SW Albuquerque, NM 87102"

copyright, Thomas F. Barrow

NOTES: Catalogued 5/90, DZ. "This image began as a book about Mao Tse-tung upon which the artist had drawn. The book was photographed using color Polaroid photography. This photograph was drawn upon then bolted to a Formica backing element. This construction was photographed using color Polaroid photography. The resulting photograph was scanned and four-color separated at 300 lines per inch. These separations were contact exposed to negative-working waterless printing plates. The fifth plate printed in gold ink, is a line shot from a Chinatown newspaper. It too was imaged on a negative-working waterless plate. Runs 1-5 were all hand inked and printed. A manually operated...press was used..."

SUBJECT: artifact, book

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