Operation
date: label: date made
content: 1932
name: label: printer
content: Kistler, Lynton R.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Beatrice Wood (1883-1998) was an acclaimed artist, best known for her work as a ceramicist and her involvement in founding the Dada Movement. While working in the Los Angeles art scene during the 1930s, she was introduced to master printer Lynton Kistler, who persuaded her to take up printmaking and gifted her a set of materials to learn lithography. She created "Operation" in 1932. This print is believed to represent her personal traumatic experience receiving a hysterectomy. Wood’s lithograph series were pure expressions of her wit as well as intimate views into her personal life
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
label: Associated Place
content: Mexico: Chiapas, Los Angeles
topic: label: Subject
content: Medicine
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Kistler Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0650.0958
label: accession number
content: 1978.0650
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0650.0958
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Other Terms
content: Print; Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 20 cm x 35.6 cm; 7 7/8 in x 14 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 32.5 cm x 47.5 cm; 12 13/16 in x 18 11/16 in