Letterpress print on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
[no title, portfolio of six letter press prints]
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/glen-baxter-709" aria-label="More by Glen Baxter" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Glen Baxter</a>
Seths Snood was Envy Boys in Bunkhouse
Purchased 1982
adults
agriculture and fishing
bedroom
caption
cartoon / comic strip
clothing and personal items
domestic
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
gun, handgun
hat
herdsman / herdswoman
herdsman / herdswoman, cowboy
holster
humour
inscriptions
interiors
man
objects
people
symbols and personifications
universal concepts
weapons
work and occupations
paper print letterpress
Seth’s Snood was the Envy of the Boys in the Bunkhouse
image: 107 × 160 mm
Purchased 1982
<p><b>P07605</b> [from] UNTITLED PORTFOLIO 1978 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/baxter-it-was-hendersons-sixth-attempt-at-lasagne-p07604" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07604</span></a>–<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/baxter-to-my-mind-theres-no-finer-sight-than-kale-moving-at-speed-opined-millward-p07609" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07609</span></a>; complete]</p>
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<br/>All inscribed ‘Glen Baxter 78’ bottom right and ‘31/75’</p>
<p>Six letterpress prints, printed at Ithaca Press, published by Anthony Stokes, in range 4×4 7/8-4 1/4×6 1/4 (10×12.5–10.7×16)
<br/>Purchased from Anthony Stokes (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
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<br/>Baxter's <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> are taken from original <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawings</span></a> and published in limited <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/edition" title="Glossary definition for 'Edition'"><span>edition</span></a>, postcard and book form. ‘The twins introduced the imposter’ was also published as a postcard by Anthony Stokes in 1980. ‘To me the window is still a symbolically loaded motif drawled Cody’ was also published as a postcard by Anthony Stokes (1980) and in The Impending Gleam, a book of Baxter's work published by Jonathan Cape (1981).
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1984
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2004-10-11T00:00:00
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adults agriculture and fishing bedroom caption cartoon / comic strip clothing and personal items domestic emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities gun, handgun hat herdsman / herdswoman herdsman / herdswoman, cowboy holster humour inscriptions interiors man objects people symbols and personifications universal concepts weapons work and occupations