Tools in the Earth
Artist
Jim Dine
(American, born 1935)
Printer
Bill Lagattuta
(American, born 1950)
Publisher
Tamarind Institute
(founded 1970)
Date2007
Mediumtwo color, six plate lithograph
DimensionsImage: 30 x 40 1/8 in. (76.2 x 101.9 cm)
Support: 30 x 40 1/8 in. (76.2 x 101.9 cm)
Support: 30 x 40 1/8 in. (76.2 x 101.9 cm)
ClassificationsGraphic
Credit LineGift of Bill Lagattuta, 2011
Object number2011.20
DescriptionArray of hardware and tools, including artist studio tools, wrenches, and hammers in monochrome with smudges, splatters and other markmaking across image.Text Entries
Jim Dine has often returned to the same themes and images throughout his career, usually commonplace objects such as a robe, hearts, or, as in this lithograph, tools. Dine created this print at Tamarind Institute, a printshop where he has returned often and worked with master printer Bill Lagattuta, who is gifting this print. Dine has used tools in an autobiographical sense. His father and grandfather both ran a hardware store in Cincinnati, where he grew up. Moreover, these are “tools of the trade” that he uses as a painter, draftsman, and printer. In that sense, Tools in the Earth is about the process of artmaking.
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