Object number1991.22.12

Squash, from The Atelier Project 1983-1986

Date1986

Artist Judy Pfaff (American, 1946-)

CultureAmerican

MediumWoodcut on Okawara paper

EditionEdition 3 of 85

DimensionsSheet: 21 3/4 x 29 3/4 in. (55.25 x 75.57 cm)

Credit LineGift of Philip and Lynn Straus, class of 1946

Period20th c

Classification(s)

SignedOn recto, signed lower right corner in pencil: J Pfaff

InscribedOn recto, lower left corner in pencil: 3/85; lower center in pencil: Squash

MarkingsOn recto, lower right corner [blind stamp]: Visual Arts Division / Center for Editions / Purchase, New York / SUNY Purchase

Vassar Exhibitions

A Living Legacy: Gifts from Lynn Gross Straus

Label TextJudy Pfaff is primarily a sculptor who also explores materiality in two-dimensional works on paper. Like her groundbreaking installations of the 1970s, which filled galleries with mazelike accumulations of materials in linear and geometric forms, the complex composition of Squash incorporates large shapes and patterns, planes of color, and thick lines in a setting. The exaggerated details call attention to the woodcut medium.

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