Chine colle was applied (two stripes and triangular shape) to add extra dimension to the artist's rendering of a skull.
Description | Chine colle was applied (two stripes and triangular shape) to add extra dimension to the artist's rendering of a skull. |
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About the Artist | (Born 1946, Potawatomi/ Creek) Douglas J. Coffin earned his BFA from the University of Kansas in 1971, majoring in jewelry. He also earned an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1975 in metalsmithing. A sculpture teach at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, Coffin received a Ford Foundation Grant. He was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship. Major public collections including his work are the Heard Museum in Phoenix, AZ; the Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe, NM; the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, NM and the National Museum of American Indian in Washington, D.C. Coffin is cited in Who's Who in American Art. |
Culture | American Indian |
Style | Figurative Expressionism, Contemporary |
Medium | Monoprint (monotype) enhanced with oil pastel and paint on off-white Archespaper |
Edition | 1/1 |
Plate size | 28" height X 20 1/2" width |
Paper size | 41" height X 29 1/2" width |
Frame | White finished wood molding, regular glass, print is float mounted. Some wear to molding. |
Signed | "D. Coffin" at viewer's lower right margin in graphite |
Date of creation | 1986 |
Condition | Excellent to good, as appeared framed, glazed. Five soft creases in upper register of paper. |
Provenance | LF |