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Maker(s):Demus, Jakob
Culture:Austrian (1959- )
Title:Walnuts
Date Made:2005
Type:Print
Materials:Diamond drypoint; ink on paper
Place Made:Europe; Austria
Measurements:Mat: 14 3/4 in x 20 in; 37.5 cm x 50.8 cm; Sheet: 10 9/16 in x 14 15/16 in; 26.8 cm x 37.9 cm; Plate/Image: 6 1/16 in x 10 13/16 in; 15.4 cm x 27.5 cm
Narrative Inscription:  INSCRIPTIONS: recto, lower left (pencil): Probe Such I. it. ; recto, lwr. l. (pencil): ep. 308 ; DATE: recto, lwr. r. (pencil): 2005 ; SIGNATURE: recto, lwr. ctr. (pencil): Jakob Demus
Accession Number:  MH 2011.1.2
Credit Line:Purchase with the Jean C. Harris Art Acquisition Fund
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
To the left are two walnuts in split shells. A single bee is in the upper center of the image and six walnuts resembling brains are to the right. In the upper left are 15 lines of text mostly illegible and not in English (probably German).

Label Text:
To create his life-like images of natural specimens, contemporary artist Jakob Demus uses a sharpened diamond to engrave directly into a copper etching plate. His meticulously rendered images, like these fleshy walnuts, recall the naturalism of 16th-century Flemish still-lifes.

-Hannah Blunt, Associate Curator, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (Sept. 2016)

Subjects:
drypoints (prints)

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