University Art Museum at New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, New Mexico
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- Esther K Smith Dikko Faust
- Start a Heat Wave By Making Her Feet Wave, 1989
- Letterpress on cardstock
- 4.25 x 6 in (10.8 x 15.24 cm)
- Signature: Verso: ULC, L center
- Inv: 1994.04.159
Postcard collaboration with PPP and Pamela Hobbs. Recto is portrait orientation. Imagery is a Carmen Miranda type caricature. Woman is wearing a fruit hat and a ruffled bottom dress and there are two die-cut holes in the dress to put one's fingers through.
Verso: Horizontal orientation. Text provides information about artist, printer, edition, copyright. 5/8" from the bottom edge and 1 5/8" from left edge, there are two finger holes with diameters of 5/8". To the right of the holes are the following instructions: "let your fingers do the dancing" Above the holes are to cans of food, one opened and one closed.
Colors: red, yellow purple.
Specklestone paper.
Font: Bernhard gothic.
Photos stored digitally in "Permanent Collections Images" file on UAG server.
- Collections: Modern and Contemporary Art Collection, Paper Works
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