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Isle Royale
Isle Royale
Isle Royale

Isle Royale

Artist (American, 1939 - 2019)
Printer (American, born 1950)
Publisher (founded 1970)
Date1994
Mediumlithograph
DimensionsImage: 6 3/8 × 11 7/16 in. (16.2 × 29.1 cm)
Plate Mark (Stone Impression): 10 × 16 3/4 in. (25.4 × 42.5 cm)
Support: 16 3/16 × 20 1/8 in. (41.1 × 51.1 cm)
ClassificationsGraphic
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds provided by Luke Sullivan in honor of his parents, Patrick and Mary, for their limitless love & innumerable gifts and graces; and in honor of Gendron Jensen, for a life courageously and gracefully loved, 2012
Object number2012.32.6
DescriptionTwo bones, one resting upon the other, float in the center of the paper
Text Entries

Gendron Jensen has been working in northern New Mexico since 1987. Working directly from nature as a realist, Jensen’s work reflects an homage to the natural world and an interest in the taxonomies that comprise it. He often works with specimens studied in natural museum collections or found in nature. At the same time, Jensen takes certain liberties with the bones, combining bones of distinct animals, for example, to tell a broader narrative. The New Mexico Museum of Art is the only museum to represent Gendron Jensen’s complete works in printmaking, which has been an important aspect of his artistic practice since he was in a Benedictine monastery during his 20s and worked in the monastery print shop.

This image is derived from the ball ends of thighbones of both moose and timber wolf, juxtaposing predator and prey. This print was inspired by a series of drawings done while in residency on Isle Royale in Lake Superior.

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