Blue Smallpox - The Print of Hope
Primary
Eric Avery
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1948–present, San Ygnacio, Texas)
Printer
Eric Avery
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1948–present, San Ygnacio, Texas)
NationalityAmerican, North America
Date1993
MediumRelief photo-engraving and linocut over monotype with bleeded handwork
DimensionsSheet: 24 3/16 × 19 1/2 in. (61.5 × 49.5 cm)
Image: 24 3/16 × 19 1/2 in. (61.5 × 49.5 cm)
Image: 24 3/16 × 19 1/2 in. (61.5 × 49.5 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Karen G. and Dr. Elgin W. Ware, Jr. Collection, 1996.114
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Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1996.114
On View
Not on viewThis print presents the link between the emotional and physical realities of the AIDS patients that Avery treated as a psychiatrist. Blue Smallpox, a line-block print incorporating a nineteenth-century image of a pox sufferer, is also entitled The Print of Hope because that “incurable” scourge was finally defeated by medicine.
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