Black Orpheus

1964

Walasse Ting, Artist Clifford Smith, Printer Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc., Publisher

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About the Artwork

Title Black Orpheus

Artwork Date 1964

Makers Walasse Ting (Artist) American, 1929-2010 Clifford Smith (Printer) American Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc. (Publisher) American, founded 1960

Medium Lithograph printed in black ink on wove paper

Dimensions Image and sheet: 28 × 38 inches (71.1 × 96.5 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Bequest of Cleo K. Gruber in memory of Lester A. Gruber, 1983

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F1988.39.6

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Signed Signed and dated, in pencil, lower left: ting 64

Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, preceding signature, lower left: 3/20 Inscribed, on stone, lower left: Moon naked white | Star sweet diamond | Earth spin too hot | no time sit down drink glass beer with me Inscribed, in pencil above publisher's drystamp, lower center: 1158

Marks Drystamps, lower right center: [publisher's and printer's]

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Cleo K. Gruber;
1988-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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American Prints 1960-1985. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1986, p. 392.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Walasse Ting, Black Orpheus, 1964, lithograph printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Cleo K. Gruber in memory of Lester A. Gruber, 1983, F1988.39.6.