2006.77.6: Tool Box VI
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2006.77.6
- People
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Jim Dine, American (Cincinnati, Ohio 1935 -)
Printed by Kelpra Studio
Published by Editions Alecto, London
- Title
- Tool Box VI
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: A Tool Box
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1966
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/322089
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Red acrylic plastic portfolio box, title page, and ten screenprints with collaged elements: nine on various papers (one mounted on board) and one on plastic sheet
- Technique
- Screen print and collage
- Dimensions
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portfolio case: 60.96 x 48.26 x 3.81 cm (24 x 19 x 1 1/2 in.)
sheet: 60.3 x 47.9 cm (23 3/4 x 18 7/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: each sheet signed in pencil, recto; numbered in pencil, verso
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Edition
- 26/150
- Standard Reference Number
- Mikro 42f
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
- Copyright
- © Jim DIne / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Accession Year
- 2006
- Object Number
- 2006.77.6
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Descriptions
- Commentary
- Jim Dine's interest in tools is customarily attributed to his working in his grandfather's and then father's hardware store. Certainly tools were ideal instruments for representation in the new Pop lexicon of everyday objects. The tools depicted in "A Tool Box" were cut out of industrial design magazines and engineering textbooks and then screenprinted onto ten different surfaces, ranging from white paper to clear acetate to silver mylar to blue graph paper. Drawing on the model of Rauschenberg's combines, Dine then collaged objects to the prints. A comic absurdity pervades the depiction and the deployment of the tool, as well as the combination of elements in the compositions. For instance, four hammers are depicted above a huge pair of red lips.
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