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Untitled (Cover Girl)

1989

Jean LaMarr

(Member of Northern Paiute/Achomawi nation, b. 1945)
publisher

Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

Culture
America
Medium
Color offset lithograph
Measurements
Image and Sheet: 54.8 x 76 cm (21 9/16 x 29 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Linda and Jack Lissauer, M.D. 2023.91
Edition
Edition of 96
Copyright
Copyright
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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An enrolled member of the Susanville Indian Rancheria, LaMarr’s politically motivated art includes murals, dioramas, sculptures, and installations in addition to prints.

Description

Northern Paiute/Achomawi artist Jean LaMarr has worked primarily as a printmaker, using it as a tool for political art. In this work, part of her Cover Girl series, she refers to exploitative nineteenth-century photographs of half-dressed Native American women, adorning them with clothing, jewelry, and basketry to reclaim the women’s dignity and respect.
A horizontally oriented color lithograph depicts three diagonal zones. In our lower left, an Indigenous woman reclines on draped blue-gray fabric, resting her head in her hand above a green lace pattern. A wide, textured reddish-brown band dominates the center. In our upper right, a small white airplane flies through a dark blue sky. Thin pink and white lines divide the composition into distinct diagonal sections.

Untitled (Cover Girl)

1989

Jean LaMarr, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

(Member of Northern Paiute/Achomawi nation, b. 1945)
America

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