DAVID MICHAEL BATES (American b.1952) . Birth of Venus, c.1978 . Woodcut . 13in.x 14in.(sight size) . Not signed . Provenanc...

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DAVID MICHAEL BATES (American b.1952)
Birth of Venus, c.1978
Woodcut
13in.x 14in.(sight size)
Not signed
Provenance: Don Mangus collection

As an undergraduate, David Bates produced a series of intaglio and woodcut prints at Southern Methodist University where he lampooned famous works of art by replacing the traditional figures with living skeletons, in the manner of Jose Guadalupe Posada's calaveras prints. This woodcut print was reprinted by Bates' printmaking instructor Lawrence Scholder, as a demonstration of hand-printing for a later printmaking class, and thus was Not signed or numbered.

Keywords: Texas, contemporary, landscape, folk art, modern art, museum

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