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Pepper Jelly Lady
198020th century
26 in. x 21 in. (66.04 cm x 53.34 cm)
Romare Bearden, American, (1911–1988)
Object Type:
Prints
Creation Place:
North America, United States
Medium and Support:
Silkscreen and lithograph on paper
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection, gift of John D. Levine, class of 1958
Accession Number:
1998.035
Pepper Jelly Lady conjures up this African-American artist’s past in the rural South. A return in 1976 to his native Charlotte, North Carolina prompted the artist’s "Odyssean" voyage of discovery through his own history. This image, rendered in silkscreen and lithography, invokes the Thirties. Beardon’s layering and collage compositional methods convey the way memories can be vitally specific and vague at the same time. The central figure honors a woman who sold pepper jelly from a basket while the sketchy border (which may include a self-portrait in the lower right corner) combines multiple scenes from Beardon’s past.
Beardon refers to poet T.S. Eliot when musing on his relationship to time. "In the Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot talks about time, about how you have to go back where you started to gain insights. Things that aren’t essential have been stripped away and the meaning of other things has become clear . . My great grandfather’s garden, the lady who sold pepper jelly from her basket, and Liza, the little girl I played with all left a great impression on me."
From the Presidential Portfolio, commissioned by Joan Mondale.
Beardon refers to poet T.S. Eliot when musing on his relationship to time. "In the Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot talks about time, about how you have to go back where you started to gain insights. Things that aren’t essential have been stripped away and the meaning of other things has become clear . . My great grandfather’s garden, the lady who sold pepper jelly from her basket, and Liza, the little girl I played with all left a great impression on me."
From the Presidential Portfolio, commissioned by Joan Mondale.
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20th Century,
21st Century,
American*,
Contemporary*,
lithographs*,
lithography*,
paper (fiber product)*,
prints (visual works)*,
screen printing*,
screen prints*
- 20th Century
- 21st Century
- American - Refers to the context of or associated specifically with the modern political entity of the United States of America.
- Contemporary - Refers to painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and architecture dating from the recent past and present. It differs from modern art in that the term 'contemporary art' does not carry the implication of a non-traditional style, but instead refers only to the time period in which the work was created. 'Modern' and 'contemporary' are inherently fluid terms. The term 'contemporary' is sometimes more narrowly used to refer to art from ca. 1960 or 1970 up to the present.
- lithographs - Prints made using the process of lithography, which is a planographic printing process in which a design is deposited on the stone or plate with a greasy substance which will accept ink.
- lithography - Planographic printing process in which a design is deposited on the stone or plate with a greasy substance and the surface is chemically treated to accept ink only in the greasy areas.
- paper (fiber product) - Refers generally to all types of matted or felted sheets or webs of fiber formed and dried on a fine screen from a pulpy water suspension. The fibers may be animal, such as hair, silk or wool, or mineral, such as asbestos, or synthetic. However most paper is made from cellulosic plant fiber, such as from wood pulp, grass, cotton, linen, and straw.
- prints (visual works) - Pictorial works produced by transferring images by means of a matrix such as a plate, block, or screen, using any of various printing processes. When emphasizing the individual printed image, use "impressions." Avoid the controversial expression "original prints," except in reference to discussions of the expression's use. If prints are neither "reproductive prints" nor "popular prints," use just "prints." With regard to photographs, see "photographic prints"; for types of reproductions of technical drawings and documents, see terms found under "reprographic copies."
- screen printing - Printing by forcing ink or dye through a mesh on which a design has been formed by stopping out certain areas.
- screen prints - Prints made by exclusively using the process of screen printing, whether originated by hand or photographically.
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Dimensions
- sheet Dimensions: 26 x 21 in. (660 x 533 mm)