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Pink Trailer
Presented by E.J. Power through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1980
caravan
countries and continents
landscape
places
society
sunshine
transport: land
USA
weather
wooded
paper print lithograph
Pink Trailer
image: 432 × 641 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999964" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">E.J. Power</a> through the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1980
<p><b>P11008</b> PINK TRAILER 1977
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<br/>Inscribed ‘John Salt 77’ bottom right and ‘AP’
<br/>Lithograph, printed by Ian Lawson and published by Anderson O'Day in an edition of 65, 17×25 1/4 (43.2×64.2)
<br/>Presented by E.J. Power 1980
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<br/>Salt lived in America from 1967 to 1978. He frequently used trailers (caravans) as subjects, and this <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>print</span></a> is particularly closely related to the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolours</span></a> ‘Pink Trailer with Gas Tanks’ and ‘Pink Trailer in Sunlight’, both of 1976. For the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithograph</span></a> Salt drew directly on the plates using the same <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/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photographs</span></a> as for the latter watercolour. Ian Lawson achieved the required colour gradations with a minimum number of printings by using delicate transparent colours.
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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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2004-10-13T00:00:00
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caravan countries and continents landscape places society sunshine transport: land USA weather wooded