etching, aquatint, and open bite with pencil additions on Arches paper22 3/4 x 29 15/16 inchessigned lower right, numbered 27
Condition
very good condition, no apparent issues
Frame Information
unframed
Notes
Printed by Donn Steward at ULAE, published by ULAE
Based on a Polaroid photograph of his first daughter, Enter Emma reflects Rivers’ ambivalence toward demonstrations of parental price and his tacit acknowledgement of the dangers that menace children. A knife was one of Rivers’ favorite tools at the time, used in numerous collages as well as the cut-out setions of his lithographs.
Examples from this edition can be found in the following permanent collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.