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Daybook

2022

Marie Watt

(American, enrolled Seneca Nation, b. 1967)
Culture
America
Medium
Color soft-ground etching and aquatint
Measurements
Sheet: 40 x 78 cm (15 3/4 x 30 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Linda and Jack Lissauer, M.D. 2025.203
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Marie Watt has described the theme of this print saying that “In my family and in my tribe . . . blankets are markers for memory and story.”

Description

Marie Watt explores the significance of blankets, viewing them as symbolic of social, historical, and cultural connections among Native Americans. To evoke woven cloth, she pressed two different fabrics into a wax-covered copper printing plate, a process that captured their texture and even loose strings. The forms were etched into the plate’s surface using acid before it was inked, wiped, and run through a press with paper. Watt chose warm tones to suggest the light and color of a sunrise—an experience that, like weaving blankets, she sees as a communal one.
A horizontally oriented soft-ground etching and aquatint features stacked bands of red, orange, maroon, and purple centered on a cream sheet. These saturated horizontal layers exhibit a woven, fabric-like texture with ragged edges. A short vertical red stroke punctuates the maroon band on our right. Below the main composition's pinkish plate mark, the title Daybook and pencil signatures are inscribed along the lower margin.

Daybook

2022

Marie Watt

(American, enrolled Seneca Nation, b. 1967)
America

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