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Palabras Malo
Palabras Malo
Palabras Malo

Palabras Malo

Artist (born 1943 Wichita, Kansas; lives Santa Fe, New Mexico)
Date1989
Mediumlithograph on paper, ed. 26/35
DimensionsFrame: 42 1/2 × 33 1/2 × 1 1/4 in. (108 × 85.1 × 3.2 cm)
ClassificationsPrints & Printmaking
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Ray Graham
Object numberPC2020.8.112
DescriptionA color print of a skeleton holding a barrel under his arm and surrounded by a dark background. This central image is framed by inky black sketches of seemingly unrelated objects. In the lower left corner, a figure kneels to pray before a tree with a horse's head appearing in its branches. In the upper-left corner is a capsized boat. On the right side of the composition, a bird hangs upside down from a branch. The bird's head is obscured by a whirling halo. In the lower-right corner is a anatomical human heart with a bell hidden in its shadows. Text at the top of the image reads: "¿Malo? (Bad?)" and below, "Palabras Malo (Bad Words)."
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