Property from an Important Midwest Collection
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Alan Shields
Detroit
1973
Double sided screenprint in colors, with interlacing strips of Morilla AP etching paper stitched and glued together in a network of grids, the full sheet.
S. 22 1/8 x 22 1/8 in. (56.2 x 56.2 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered 8/13 in pencil, published by the Jones Road Print Shop and Stable, Barneveld, Wisconsin, framed.
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Alan Shields and Bill Weege (Master Pinter and Founder of Jones Road Print Shop and Stable) interviewed by artist Howardena Pindell in Barneveld, Wisconsin, November 16, 1974
HP: In some prints you deliberately use one side of the paper and others you print on both. Is there a reason?
BW: It's an accident.
AS: It's deliberately accidental. The grids are quite obviously, to me anyway, divided into two sides–they have two sides ... I don't think that either way is right, I just do all that's possible.
HP: In some prints you deliberately use one side of the paper and others you print on both. Is there a reason?
BW: It's an accident.
AS: It's deliberately accidental. The grids are quite obviously, to me anyway, divided into two sides–they have two sides ... I don't think that either way is right, I just do all that's possible.