Alison Saar
High Cotton

High Cotton

© Alison Saar

High Cotton
High Cotton
ArtistAmerican, born 1956
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • High Cotton
Date2017
MediumLinoleum cut, woodcut, and monotype on handmade chiri kozo paper, edition 2/8
DimensionsSheet: 25 × 16 3/4 in. (63.5 × 42.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Carol Lynne Werner at Art + Paper 2018
Object number2018.132
Not on view

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Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist; Paul Mullowney until 2018, [International Print Center New York, New York, 2018], purchased by MFAH in 2018.
Exhibition HistoryInternational Print Center New York. Edging Forward: New Prints 2018/Winter. 2018.

"The Remaking of Myths and Tales," The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Oct. 28, 2020 – July 27, 2021. [Inaugural Installation: Kinder Building 207: No Catalog]
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Editioned in graphite, below image left: 2/8 EV
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, below image center: High Cotton [cursive]
Recto: Signed and dated in graphite, below image right: A. Saar 2017
Recto: Signed and dated in graphite, below image right: A. Saar 2017
Recto: Watermark, bottom left corner: [circle, square, and triangle]
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images from Tina Tan
Alice Austin
2018
Artist book of linoleum cuts in colors and letterpress on wove paper; objects made of silver, glass, sea shells and plastic placed in Japanese shibori textile bags; all components housed in a wooden box, edition 2 of 5 deluxe copies, edition of 15
2019.38
Melancholia
Christiane Baumgartner
2022
Woodcut on Kozo paper, edition 2/6
2023.73
Image taken during unrolling/measuring process
Christiane Baumgartner
2010
Woodcut on kozo paper, edition 2/6
2011.285
Sachi
Delita Pinchback Martin
2020
Reduction linoleum cut in colors on wove paper, cut-and-glued metallic paint on wove paper, cut-and-pasted block print on Japanese paper, cut-and-glued linoleum cut and embossing on wove paper; and cotton thread, edition 1/7
2021.291
Untitled [4]
Francesco Clemente
1982
Woodcut on handmade paper, edition 2/35
96.13.4
Untitled [3]
Francesco Clemente
1982
Woodcut on handmade paper, edition 2/35
96.13.3
Untitled [2]
Francesco Clemente
1982
Woodcut on handmade paper, edition 2/35
96.13.2
Untitled [1]
Francesco Clemente
1982
Woodcut on handmade paper, edition 2/35
96.13.1
Untitled [8]
Francesco Clemente
1982
Woodcut on handmade paper, edition 2/35
96.13.8
Untitled [7]
Francesco Clemente
1982
Woodcut on handmade paper, edition 2/35
96.13.7
Untitled [6]
Francesco Clemente
1982
Woodcut on handmade wove paper, edition 2/35
96.13.6
Untitled [5]
Francesco Clemente
1982
Woodcut on handmade paper, edition 2/35
96.13.5