In Birmingham Jail
Catalogue
- Year
- 1963
- Dimensions
- plate: 17 3/4 x 23 11/16" (45.1 x 60.1 cm); sheet: 21 7/16 x 28 9/16" (54.4 x 72.5 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Warrington Colescott
Artist
Printmaking
Warrington Colescott was an American printmaker and painter known for satirical intaglio prints that combined historical imagery with contemporary social critique. Working primarily in etching and engraving, he created densely layered compositions that merged old master techniques with irreverent humor and political commentary. Based in Wisconsin, Colescott developed a distinctive visual vocabulary that mocked authority, power structures, and cultural pretension through fragmented narratives and grotesque figuration. His work bridged postwar American printmaking and conceptual art, refusing the abstraction that dominated his era in favor of explicit subject matter and narrative complexity.
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To Your Good Health
1986 · Watercolor on paper
Lasansky Reaches Iowa City, from The History of Printmaking
1976 · Color lithograph on paper
S. W. Hayter Discovers Viscosity Printing, from The History of Printmaking
1976 · Color soft ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, relief rolls through stencils on cream wove paper
Title Page, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Print Seminar, March 1975 Portfolio
1975 · Letterpress in brown on cream wove paper
A Brief History of Flight, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Print Seminar, March 1975 Portfolio
1975 · Color soft ground etching, with vibrograver, and viscosity inking on paper
Portfolio box, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Print Seminar, March 1975 Portfolio
1975 · Clamshell box wrapped in linen with embossed cream wove paper addition
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- Warrington Colescott
- Year
- 1963
- Dimensions
- plate: 17 3/4 x 23 11/16" (45.1 x 60.1 cm); sheet: 21 7/16 x 28 9/16" (54.4 x 72.5 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1963-M054758
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- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified