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Title: Los Angeles
Creator: Shimotsuma, Sister Frances F., Artist
Contributor: Shimotsuma, Sister Frances F., Artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1992
1992-07-10
1992-07-14
Publication Information: California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Dept of Special Collections, Donald Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010, cema@library.ucsb.edu, (805) 893-8563, URL: http://cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu/cema_index.html
Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara, Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Collection: Self-Help Graphics and Art archives
Rights Information: Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, Dept of Special Collections, Donald Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9010; cema@library.ucsb.edu (805) 893-8563
Description: A series of concentric and broken yellow circles resembling strata. The center is an outlined apple containing half an orange surrounded by worms. Two lizards watch the scene from right and left sides.
Colors used: 1. Light Lavender, 2. Baige (sic.), 3. Yellow, 4. Orange, 5. Brown, 6. Blue (Process). "In the print I tried to capture the powerful force I experienced in the recent California earthquake, together with the graphic description of it shown on television shortly thereafter. I intended to portray the rupture of the earth and disturbance of all nature. Included in the print is an orange invaded by a worm which symbolizes California and the recnet destructive riots. The apple depicts the human condition." Sister F.F.Shimotsuma.
Special Project (Atelier 19 L.A. Riots); Westwinds; I-size: 16 1/8" x 24"; P-size: 20" x 28 1/8"; Ed#: 4/55, 22/55; Signed;, Inscription in pencil located below image area reads: "Los Angeles [illegible sign], 4/55, Sister Shimotsuma, '92"; chopmark: "SHG" embossed chopmark below image area .
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Type: image
Form/Genre: Screen Prints
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb2r29n8rg
CEMA 3
Language: Spanish
English
Subject: Chicanos
Earthquakes in art
Los Angeles Riot, Los Angeles, California, 1992
Mexican American art
Chicana art
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)

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