Pat Steir
American, 1938-2026
Wish # 1
INV-4792
Pat Steir
American, 1938-20261974
Wish # 1
Pat Steir American, 1938-2026 →lithographprint
Date
1974
Medium
Color lithograph on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
80.7 × 81.7 cm (31 13/16 × 32 3/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Stanley M. Freehling
Printmaking helped Steir clarify her "thinking about art both philosophically and in terms of process." In the three Wish lithographs, she uses the idea of transformation from state to state and in the technical act of overprinting—both unique to graphic media—to illustrate the ways in which images or "illusions" become associated with myth, memory, and history.
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