Raw

Artist Doris Cross born 1919

Date1976

Mediumlithograph on paper, ed. 6/70

Dimensions30 × 22 1/8 in. (76.2 × 56.2 cm)

ClassificationsPrints & Printmaking

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Mrs. John Metzenberg

Object numberPC1991.62.1

DescriptionA lithograph featuring poetry created from a heavily redacted dictionary page. The text is wrapped around illustrations of a rattlesnake and a raven. To the right is a vertical bar with a turquoise and red gradient. An organic red triangle is in the lower left corner. The background of the print is dark grey. The poem is titled "RAW" and reads as follows: "talk us ach of death. r -brain ( ) -headed rat r certain American hay horny lock at the end the tail rattle shake r -trap Us ( ) shak r us arse harsh ugh; as, a voice. r AGED the idea the idea of violence SACK devastate a country sack a town. r talk, claim, as if or rage. cite condition of r -ELED ( ) or -ELLED; -EL-ING or -EL- -LING. [ ] into a tangled mass; plain. come rave two embankments which make a salient angle r r r black of the black like black. r Rap — Rap r (-ŭs) no o Rap o orac us o See us- ness r worn out running smaller a valley r A word (Shak. Macb. IV. i. 24) "glutted" r Talk r to tear away o i carry o light. a woman rape — raw so little changed by art"

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