Rise
2020 (Date manufactured/created)
ink
linoleum
11 inches H
X
8.5 inches W
Measurement Notes: sheet dims.
print (two-pass linoleum on letterpress); printers proof edition 5 of 6; edition of 100 (editioned by Leslie Ross-Robertson of Wavelength Press). Portrait (head and chest area) of African-American woman having skin and hair shaded in red hues and having proper left fist raised at proper left shoulder; she wears white tank-top shirt and has white brilliance halo encircling head vertically.
The credit for the Saar image should read as follows:
Alison Saar (b. 1956)
Rise, 2020
two-pass linoleum print on letter press
8 ½ x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 com)
Mattatuck Museum; Gift of Leslie Ross Robertson, 2015.15.1
©Alison Saar. Image courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, CA and Mattatuck Museum
Alison Saar (b. 1956)
Rise, 2020
two-pass linoleum print on letter press
8 ½ x 11 in. (21.6 x 27.9 com)
Mattatuck Museum; Gift of Leslie Ross Robertson, 2015.15.1
©Alison Saar. Image courtesy of L.A. Louver, Venice, CA and Mattatuck Museum
2021.15.1