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Maker(s):Carrington, Leonora
Culture:Mexican born England (1917 – 2011)
Title:Bird Bath
Date Made:1974
Type:Print
Materials:screenprint in color on thick, smooth, white paper
Measurements:sheet: 34 9/16 in x 27 5/16 in; 87.8 cm x 69.4 cm; image: 27 7/8 in x 21 15/16 in; 70.8 cm x 55.7 cm
Narrative Inscription:  signed below image right in pencil: Leonora Carrington; editioned below image left in pencil: 105/150
Accession Number:  SC 2016.19.4
Credit Line:Gift of the estate of Ellen C. Oppler, class of 1950
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
Three standing figures in black; two stand in the foreground around a basin with a red bird with a white face in it. Figure on the right sprays the bird; figure on the left holds a white cloth. Third figure stands holding a bird in the midground left; brown house in background

Tags:
allegory; animals; birds

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Carrington, Lenora
Mexican born England (1917 – 2011)
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