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Insculpta est!
Insculpta est!
Insculpta est!

Insculpta est!

Artist (American, 1939 - 2019)
Date1998
Mediumlithograph
DimensionsImage: 7 5/8 × 5 1/8 in. (19.4 × 13 cm)
Plate Mark (Stone Impression): 11 11/16 × 8 13/16 in. (29.7 × 22.4 cm)
Support: 15 × 12 3/16 in. (38.1 × 31 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 number2012.32.7
DescriptionConfiguration of pieces of wood turtle shell float in center of paper
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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 a wood turtle specimen from the James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota. The specimen dates to around 1938. The artist describes the title as meaning “She has been impressed!” as a tongue-in-cheek reference to the medium of lithography.

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Horn Islander
Gendron Jensen
2007
widi·gewin
Gendron Jensen
1999
Inukshuk (angnak & angon)
Gendron Jensen
2005
No title
Gendron Jensen
2006
Singer of Songs
Gendron Jensen
1989
Cantata
Gendron Jensen
1989
Bel Clare
Gendron Jensen
1990
ausculta!
Gendron Jensen
1991
Glory bee!
Gendron Jensen
1994
Isle Royale
Gendron Jensen
1994
gweki
Gendron Jensen
2000
Mandan
Gendron Jensen
2001