Operation
date: label: Date made
content: Los Angeles, CA
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. This is a trial proof of her print "Operation" which she created in 1932.
label: Description (Brief)
content: "Operation" is believed to represent the artist's personal traumatic experience receiving a hysterectomy. While sharing an intimate and traumatic moment, Wood also adds a layer of satire by drawing the nurses as rudimentary stick figures. Her childlike line figures were associated with the practices of Dadaism. The Dada movement rejected conventional aesthetics and encouraged playful and nonsensical art.
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
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Kistler Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0650.0960
label: accession number
content: 1978.0650
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0650.0960
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: 14.5 cm x 37 cm; 5 11/16 in x 14 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 32 cm x 48.4 cm; 12 5/8 in x 19 1/16 in