| Maker(s): | Liu, Hung; Lagattuta, Bill (printed by)
| | Culture: | American born China (Liu 1948 -2021)
| | Title: | Wildflower (Orchid)
| | Date Made: | 1999
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | lithograph with gold aluminum leaf and collaged color copies of Old Chinese stamps on white Somerset wove paper with deckled edges
| | Place Made: | United States
| | Measurements: | sheet: 25 x 19 in.; 63.5 x 48.26 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | inscribed in pencil at lower left recto: 7/20, signed and dated in pencil at lower right recto: Hung Liu 1999; blind stamp at lower left and blind stamp at lower right
| | Accession Number: | SC 2001.23
| | Credit Line: | Gift of Frances Elk Scher, class of 1953, in honor of her friend, classmate and art mentor Judy Targan (Judith Plesser, class of 1953) on her birthday
| | Museum Collection: | Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
gold background, black bird in upper right corner, black drips at lower left corner, oval orchid tinted portrait of young woman in high collared Chinese dress with necklace, applied Players Cigarettes card with butterfly and larva at upper left, mid left applied card with Chinese text and chrysanthemum, small applied card at bottom edge near lower left corner with two antlered deer facing a design in center on red ground and Chinese text, small colored card with orchid at lower center with CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE, small colored applied card at lower right corner with SPAIN SPENORA / 17th CENTURY and small boat with two sails on water
Label Text:
This image was published by the Tamarind Print Workshop. This print number 7 in an edition of 20.
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