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>
Twins Devoted an Hour Each Day to Walnut
Purchased 1982
actions: expressive
adults
caption
cartoon / comic strip
domestic
emotions, concepts and ideas
fighting
formal qualities
humour
inscriptions
interior - non-specific
interiors
man
people
symbols and personifications
universal concepts
paper print letterpress
The Twins Devoted an Hour Each Day to the Walnut
image: 111 × 150 mm
Purchased 1982
<p><b>P07606</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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actions: expressive adults caption cartoon / comic strip domestic emotions, concepts and ideas fighting formal qualities humour inscriptions interior - non-specific interiors man people symbols and personifications universal concepts