
Collection Online as of June 9, 2023
(American, b. 1939)
Etching and aquatint with chine collé on Arches wove paper
Platemark: 30.1 x 43 cm (11 7/8 x 16 15/16 in.); Sheet: 56.5 x 76 cm (22 1/4 x 29 15/16 in.)
Alma and Robert D. Milne Fund 2022.96
State: state IV/IV
Edition: Edition of 20
Impression: 15/20
not on view
This print is one of many works in which Camille Billops explored the experiences and intersections of Blackness and womanhood. A nude woman appears in an imaginary landscape, evoking the long tradition of this subject throughout art history, but with a geometricized style meant to reference artworks encountered during the artist's travels throughout Africa several years before. Its title suggests Billops’s frustration with power struggles encountered while negotiating a place within the New York art world of the 1960s and '70s.