| dc.creator | Thrash, Dox | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2007-11-02T17:56:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2007-11-02T17:56:39Z | |
| dc.identifier | 105169 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/22219 | en_US |
| dc.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. | en_US |
| dc.description | full view | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 25.4 x 17.5 cm (10 x 6.89 inches) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | paper (fiber product) | en_US |
| dc.format.medium | ink | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 116367 | en_US |
| dc.rights | (c)Davis Art Images | en_US |
| dc.subject | Women -- Portraits | en_US |
| dc.subject | African American women | en_US |
| dc.subject | Art, American --20th century | en_US |
| dc.title | Mary Lou | en_US |
| dc.type | Image | en_US |
| dc.rights.access | Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only | en_US |
| dc.identifier.vendorcode | PMA-2728 | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | Repository: Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States) ID: 1942-86-3 | en_US |
| vra.culturalContext | American | en_US |
| vra.technique | carborundum mezzotint (printing process) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | Etching (print) | en_US |
| vra.worktype | Carborundum mezzotint | en_US |
| dc.contributor.display | artist: Dox Thrash (American, 1892-1965) | en_US |
