The Hand-Painted Portrait on Thin Fabriano

About the Artwork

Title The Hand-Painted Portrait on Thin Fabriano

Artwork Date 1979

Makers Jim Dine (Artist) American, born 1935 Ami Rosenberg (Printer) American Pace Editions, Inc. (Publisher)

Medium Etching, drypoint, and electric tools printed once in brown and once in black with hand painting in pink, blue, green, yellow and flesh oil between printings and white grease crayon after editioning

Dimensions Plate: 14 3/8 × 13 7/8 inches (36.5 × 35.2 cm) Sheet: 30 5/8 × 22 7/8 inches (77.8 × 58.1 cm)

Classification Prints

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, John S. Newberry Fund, and Lee and Tina Hills Graphic Arts Fund

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. 1994.8

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