Offset color lithograph on wove paper, 1994. 554x756 mm; 21¾x29¾ inches (sheet). Signed, titled, dated and numbered 30/70 in pencil, lower edge. Printed and published by the Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, with the blind stamp lower left.
The title Black Snake Blues comes from the 1927 blues song by Victoria Spivey, best known as Queen Victoria. In the song, she describes how a snake led her astray, referencing the biblical story of the temptation of Eve.
Impressions of this lithograph are in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art and Rhode Island School of Design Museum.
