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Rachel and the Bananaquit

1979

Bea Nettles

(American, b. 1946)
Culture
America
Medium
Kwik print on vinyl
Measurements
Image: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Artist 2023.22
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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This photograph was made with the short-lived color process Kwik Print, developed in the late 1970s by the commercial printing industry.

Description

Kwik Print allowed the creation of a print containing up to thirty layers of color. It could be applied to a variety of surfaces—this image is printed on vinyl—and was quicker and easier than historic processes that layered color. This image shows the artist holding her daughter and, to the side, a bananaquit: a small black and yellow bird found in Central and South America.
A horizontally oriented kwik print on vinyl depicts a woman in a patterned bikini holding a laughing child. Center right, they face our left. To their left, semi-transparent images of a bird and coral are layered over hazy turquoise water. In the distance, dark green hills meet a pale sky with soft clouds. The composition features a muted palette of teals, browns, and dark reds, with the figures rendered against ethereal, layered textures.

Rachel and the Bananaquit

1979

Bea Nettles

(American, b. 1946)
America

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