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FAITH RINGGOLD (1930 - ) No More War.
Color intaglio on wove paper, circa 1984-85. 603x895 mm; 23 3/4x35 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 4/5 in pencil, lower margin. An excellent impression of this very scarce, large print.
Provenance: Peg Alston Fine Arts, New York; private collection, New York.
This large print is an interpretation of the central image of Faith Ringgold's 1985 Part I story quilt. Unlike the typically painted images of her story quilts, both parts of her No More War Story Quilts include intaglio-printed images in the central panel, creating an abstraction of fallen bodies in conflict.
In 1984, Ringgold first made a series of intaglio prints entitled The Death of Apartheid and Women, Power, Poverty and Love. She then continued printmaking as a Visiting Artist at Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop in New York where she developed a technique for etching on canvas that would be used to make the No More War Story Quilts the following year. Farrington p. 108.
