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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2008.307
People
Liliana Porter, Argentinian (Buenos Aires, Argentina born 1941)
Title
Stitch
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1970
Culture
Argentinian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/330592

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Softground etching on off-white wove paper with black yarn
Technique
Softground etching
Dimensions
sheet: 78 × 56 cm (30 11/16 × 22 1/16 in.)
platemark: 44.7 × 32.5 cm (17 5/8 × 12 13/16 in.)
image: 48.9 × 32.5 cm (19 1/4 × 12 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.l in pencil: "Stitch" a/p
  • inscription: l.r in pencil: Lilliana Porter, 70

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Edition
Artist Proof

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Liliana Porter
Accession Year
2008
Object Number
2008.307
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Descriptions

Commentary
First, as part of the printmaking group New York Graphic Workshop, and then on her own, Porter has been one of the most influential artists of her generation to emerge from Latin America. Both of these prints were part of a series that Porter started in 1967 when, as she says "tried to simplify my vocabulary and start to work with what I perceived at the time as simple images: a string, a wrinkle of paper, a small shadow, a nail, etc." Porter is still interested in the play of the represented image and the real object being at the same level, as in the actual string and the soft ground etching of the string in Stitch. Cover for a Foreign Object references for Porter things that are never completely understood and that always remain on a mysterious level.

Exhibition History

  • A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, Radcliffe Institute Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, 02/05/2024 - 06/22/2024

Verification Level

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