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Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

A work made of etching.

Snow is Coming No. 2, 1980

Tanaka Ryohei

ComEd Substation, Chicago, Illinois, Drawing

ComEd Substation, Chicago, Illinois, Drawing

Stanley Tigerman

A work made of lithograph on ivory laid paper.

Priam - I Come Now and I Bring You Gifts Beyond Number, plate 54 from Drawings for The Iliad, 1962

Meriden Gravure Company

A work made of lithograph in black on white wove paper.

“- You must come to have dinner, my wife will eat in town.. it is just us two men! - Ah, the Devil! I have a terrible headache (aside) and his wife is waiting for me!,” plate 7 from Vulgarités, 1841

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A work made of lithograph in black on white wove paper.

In Tangiers. “- Sublime Majesty... the Spanish are coming... in order to frighten them off I took the liberty to fully open your umbrella as a sign of your greatness! - Leave me alone with my umbrella, Belboul.... I would rather like to have an umbrella protecting me from their bullets,” plate 115 from Actualités, November 14, 1859

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Coming and Going in the Snow (Setchu orai), from "The Book of Ryusai’s Ukiyo-e (Ukiyo Ryusai gafu)," volume 3

Coming and Going in the Snow (Setchu orai), from "The Book of Ryusai’s Ukiyo-e (Ukiyo Ryusai gafu)," volume 3, c. 18th/19th century

Utagawa Hiroshige

A work made of lithograph with hand-coloring on white wove paper.

Billy, January 1988/Washing himself after coming home/use less tape because his skin gets hurt, from Bill's Surgery, 1988

Nicholas Africano

A work made of lithograph in black on white wove paper.

“- Say then, Madme. Giboulard … don't you agree that it is not very pleasant for women of our gender, to come down like this everyday, cleaning the gutters of St. Honoré … - That's true, Madame Chaffarou, but we can also praise ourselves of being the only ones to embellish Paris!,” plate 75 from Caricatures Du Jour, 1843

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A work made of lithograph in black on ivory wove paper, with letterpress verso.

“- Sir, you who are so good, can't you get me small position?.... I am able to furnish you the best references on my honesty.... - You have always remained honest?... But in that case, my worthy man, why the devil have you come to me? You ought to know that I concentrate all my business and all my charities on this highly interesting class of freed convicts! Why don't you go and steal something or at least kill a bit... and once you are out of Toulon-prison, come and see me... I'll be delighted to offer you a helping hand!,” plate 19 from Les Philantropes Du Jour, 1845

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A work made of lithograph in black on white wove paper.

“- Mr.Lifeguard.... is it true there are sharks at Dieppe? - Of course... but it is pretty simple... as soon as you see one coming to eat you, all you have to do is lay down sideways. He won't eat you for fear of choking to death,” plate 1 from Aus Bains De Mer, c. 1858

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A work made of lithograph, with watercolor, heightened with gum arabic on ivory wove paper.

Robert: “- Well, well! My dear director... how's business?” Bertrand: “- Good, very good, I am quite content. Unfortunately we don't have a penny to continue! - Oh blast! - But an investor still owes us 200,000 Francs... and will come up for signature either tonight or latest tomorrow morning. - About time... I urgently need a new pair of boots,” plate 6 from Robert Macaire, 1841

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A work made of pen and brush and black ink and cut pieces of self-adhesive transfer tone dot film, on two layers of frosted mylar, taped to card faced with ivory paper, ruled with graphite and blue pencil.

Come Poze, from The Hairy Who Sideshow (color separations), 1967

Art Green

A work made of lithograph in black on ivory wove paper.

“- My dear friend, we have learned yesterday at the theatre that a gentleman has inadvertedly stepped on your foot.... We have come to get his address and we are eager to announce that the affair is arranged.... He is waiting for you this morning in the Bois de Boulogne. You will raise pistols at a distance of 15 paces,” plate 1 from Les Amis, 1845

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Black-and-white photograph taken from a low angle of a white picket fence and a white house behind it with dark shutters and a roof deck. The photograph is very dark, evoking nighttime. Low plants encroach upon the fence.

Night Coming Tenderly, Black: Untitled #1 (Picket Fence and Farmhouse), 2017, printed 2019

Dawoud Bey

A work made of etching in black on ivory laid paper.

Temple of Sol and Luna…, from Views of Rome (Tempi del Sole e della Luna, o come altri, d'Iside e Serapi, from Vedute di Roma), 1760-78

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

A work made of offset lithograph in black and yellow on black coated wove paper.

Come to the Museum, 1980

A work made of pen and brush and black ink, with non-photo blue and colored pencil, touches of graphite, and cut-and-pasted handwritten and photostat text on ivory card.

Come Now, Get to Work and Clean Your Rooms, from Blondie, 1958–60

Chic Young

A work made of intaglio on cream wove paper.

Coming up the Staircase, n.d.

Jan Cox

A work made of lithograph in black on off-white wove paper.

The Election Hoax. “My dear friend... do not think that I have come to ask you for your vote. I respect the independence of opinion too much for that. It is the Baroness who said to me: " Go see that poor Galouzet, tell his little wife that she is neglecting me and that I am angry with her for that. Ask about their lovely children, and say that I absolutely insist on having them over for dinner,” plate 1 from Les Carottes, 1844

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

A work made of color lithograph on cream wove paper.

Take Them Out; Spring Has Come, January 20, 1925

J. H. Dowd