Palabras Malo

Artist Terry Allen (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 central figural form of a skeleton holding a barrel surrounded by a dark background. The central image is framed by black-and-white ink sketches of multiple existential objects. In the lower left corner a figure knees praying to a tree with a horse head woven into the branches. In the upper left corner is a capsized boat. in the central right side of the frame a bird hanging upside down on a branch. The bird's head is obscured by a whirling halo. In the lower right corner is a anatomical heart with a bell hidden in its shadow. Above reads, "¿Malo?" and below, "Palabras Malo".

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