Mary Lou
Thrash, Dox
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Description
While working in Philadelphia's WPA fine print workshop during the 1930s, Dox Thrash developed the Carborundum print or carbograph, a revolutionary technique that brought him national attention. The process involved roughening a metal plate with Carborundum crystals (carbide of silicon) and then burnishing it to achieve a wide spectrum of tonal variations. Actually a composite of several young women rather than a portrait of an individual, Marylou is one of a series of "ideal heads" Thrash completed while perfecting the new medium. His depiction of a little girl happily absorbed in her magazine addresses "the joy of reading," a theme to which he devoted several images. -- From the NMAA website. full view
Type of Work
Etching (print); Carborundum mezzotintSubject
Women -- Portraits, African American women, Art, American --20th century
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