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Mickey's Birth

Object NameLithograph

Maker Harvey K. Littleton (American, 1922-2013)

Makersigned Ann (Wärff) Wolff (German, b. 1937)

Made FromInk on paper

Date1982

Place MadeUnited States, NC, Spruce Pine

Techniquelithograph printed from glass plates

SizeFrame H: 75.6 cm, W: 53.2 cm

Accession Number92.7.1

Credit LineGift of Mr. William Furth

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionCream colored paper; polychrome inks, dominated by washes of pink, orange, blue, amethyst, yellow and black; lithography printed from glass plates. Square image format on vertical rectangular paper; complex linear (black outline) drawn imagery dominated by 3 central connected female nudes (in reverse "C" configuration) with pink/orange wash (top figure is reclining with arms upstretched, figure is pregnant and giving birth to emerging head wearing Mickey mouse hat/ears, head of figure meets head of another on right, this need is curving vertical position bound back-to-black to large bird, front of bird touches second horizontal figure laying face downward), figures float within a ground of blue, gray and amethyst washes with splashes of yellow, ground is detailed with linear grids and patterning as well as miniature imagery of male figures, angel, architectural and domestic elements; print is mounted in dark brushed aluminum frame.
Provenance

Former Collection William Furth - 1992-05-19