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ID: 700001090
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001090
Record Type: Movable Work
Drypoint on acid (etchings (prints); McGee, Barry (1966-); published by Edition Jacob Samuel; Published: 2006; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 870846; accession number: 2010.PR.34)
Note: "This project was designed by Barry McGee and Jacob Samuel. The technology that was used: etching aquatint drypoint acid and silkscreen. The edition is twenty with five artist proofs."--verso of sheet; "The ten prints in Drypoint on Acid are filled with the unusual characters, the sad sacks, and the down and out who are frequently the denizens of the world created by McGee. These figures evoke, among other things, the homeless or transient population of San Francisco ..."--MoMA Highlights since 1980, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007, p. 241; Title from sheet. Publication: Santa Monica : Edition Jacob Samuel, 2006.
Titles:
Drypoint on acid (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)
Drypoint on acid; [graphic] / Barry McGee. (C,U,undetermined,U,U)
Catalog Level: portfolio
Work Types:
etchings (prints) [300041365] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)
drypoints (prints) [300041349]
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints, engravings (prints))
aquatints (prints) [300041366]
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints, etchings (prints))
silkscreens (visual works) [300178688]
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, stencil prints)
collages (visual works) [300033963]
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)
prints (visual works) [300041273]
..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:
prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: 2006

Creator Display:
McGee, Barry (1966-); published by Edition Jacob Samuel [preferred,GRISC]
artist McGee, Barry (American painter and graffiti artist, born 1966) [500116337]
publishers Samuel, Jacob (American printmaker and publisher, born 1951) [500353917]
Locations:
Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)
Repository Numbers: 870846; accession number: 2010.PR.34
Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections
Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Other: Publication: Santa Monica [7003736] Los Angeles county (county), California (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Display Materials: 1 portfolio (1 sheet, 10 prints): etching, drypoint, aquatint, silkscreen, collage, colored on wove paper
portfolios (groups of works) [300179434]
.......(Objects Facet, Object Groupings and Systems (hierarchy name), object groupings, <object groupings by specific context>, visual works groupings)
prints (visual works) [300041273]
.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)
portfolios (groups of works) [300179434]
.......(Objects Facet, Object Groupings and Systems (hierarchy name), object groupings, <object groupings by specific context>, visual works groupings)
etching (printing process) [300053241]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)
drypoint (printing process) [300053228]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes, engraving (printing process))
aquatint (printing process) [300053242]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes, etching (printing process))
screen printing [300053281]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing (process))
collage (technique) [300138699]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>)
coloring (process) [300053043]
.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <additive and joining processes and techniques>)

Dimensions: ca. 20 x 16.5 cm and smaller + 1 wrapper and wooden box (5.1 x 50.8 x 20.3 cm), 10 prints
General Subject:
human figures (preferred)

Specific Subjects:
homelessness [300055306]
.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), social science concepts, sociological concepts, social issues) (AAT)
San Francisco [7014456]
.....(San Francisco county (county), California (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet)) (TGN)

Provenance: samuel; Purchase.
Inscriptions: Drypoint on acid Barry McGee. "This project was designed by Barry McGee and Jacob Samuel. The technology that was used: etching aquatint drypoint acid and silkscreen. The edition is twenty with five artist proofs."--verso of sheet;
List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Movable Works
.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media
Sources and Contributors:
Drypoint on acid........ [GRISC,VP]
........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 870846
Drypoint on acid; [graphic] / Barry McGee......... [GRISC]
........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]
....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
Note:
English ..... [GRISC,VP]
..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
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