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Artist
Gendron Jensen
(American, 1939 - 2019)
Printer
Bill Lagattuta
(American, born 1950)
Publisher
Tamarind Institute
(founded 1970)
Date2006
Mediumlithograph
DimensionsImage: 24 1/4 × 18 in. (61.6 × 45.7 cm)
Support: 40 × 28 1/4 in. (101.6 × 71.8 cm)
Support: 40 × 28 1/4 in. (101.6 × 71.8 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 number2012.32.20
DescriptionConfiguration of skull bones floats in center of paperText 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 configuration is derived from the skull of a cow elk and the skull of an alpha female wolf, both from Yellowstone National Park. The elk was killed by a different wolf in 1997 and the alpha female wolf was killed by another animal in 2003.
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