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Chicken in the Box

Chicken in the Box - Print, Screen
Accession #: 4395.1
Title: Chicken in the Box
Object Type: Print, Screen
Participants:
Physical Description: Serigraph on paper. The colors are browns, blues, greys, and reds. The image is of a stylized chicken with his head through the bars of a fence. The chicken is tan colored with one red wing.
Description: Widely respected as an artist, teacher and innovator in the realm of printmaking, Glen Alps invented the process of printmaking known as the "collograph" with his students in 1956. A collograph is a print created by the relief technique of printing from a block that is composed of layered materials superimposed on one another. Born in Loveland, Colorado, Alps moved to Seattle in early 1940s to study at the University of Washington's School of Art. While still a graduate student in 1947, the chairman of the department, Walter F. Jacobs, invited Alps to teach classes in watercolor and design. He soon began teaching printmaking, as well. Teaching at the University of Washington until his retirement in 1984, his art department colleagues were the painters Wendell Brazeau (1910-1974), Boyer Gonzales (1909-1987), Alden Mason (b. 1919) and Spencer Moseley (1936-1998); modernist jewelry designer and craftsman, Ruth Pennington (1905-1998) and sculptor George Tsutakawa (1910-1997).
Category: Art
Dimensions:
Object H x W 32.125 x 34.625"
Materials/Techniques:
serigraph; paper (Material)
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Credit Line: Gift of the Washington Art Consortium through gift of Safeco Insurance, a member of the Liberty Mutual Group, 2017
Copyright:
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