Edition Documentation
Print Edition Record Number 43 / Art Inventory Number SG-332

Artist: Spence Guerin
Title: Woman in the Tub
Date: 1978
Medium: Etching
Paper: Various papers including Rives Lt Wt, BFK Rives, Arches and unknown. Paper sizes vary from 5.5" x 8.75" to 10" x 13"
Image: 5" x 7.5"
Ink: Various inks, more than one black, and orange, all unidentified.

ABOUT THIS PRINT
One of many images of Deborah (artist's wife at the time) in the bathtub.

PROCESS DESCRIPTION
Hardground etching on zinc on top of drypoint. Only the etching was proofed. Drawing done from life with etching point. The zinc plate was etched in nitric acid quickly, without brushing away the resulting air bubbles which created a "bubbly" line when printed. Multiple proofs were printed on different occasions, at the Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska.

EDITION RECORD
Image never finalized, not editioned.
Multiple proofs printed, some have added handwork. There are eleven trial proofs, numbered TP/1 through TP/11. Signed "S.G. 1978" below image at bottom right.

Printed at the Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska.