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Artist Gendron Jensen (American, 1939 - 2019)

Printer Bill Lagattuta (American, born 1950)

Publisher Tamarind Institute (founded 1970)

Date2002

Mediumlithograph

DimensionsImage: 18 5/8 × 33 3/4 in. (47.3 × 85.7 cm)
Support: 28 1/16 × 40 in. (71.3 × 101.6 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 number2012.32.16

DescriptionA frontally facing bison skull floats in the center of the paper
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Emuseum Notes

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 buffalo skull retrieved from Missouri Riverbottom near Pierre, South Dakota. The title is a Lakota word meaning the first light of dawn.

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