TitleSlaughterhouse
Artist
Sue Coe
(English, b. 1951)
Date1993
MediumLithograph on gray Rives BFK paper
DimensionsSheet size: 22 3/8 × 30 1/16 in.
Image size: 19 7/8 × 27 13/16 in.
Mat size: 26 1/8 × 35 3/4 in.
Edition13/25
SignedSigned in graphite at LR: "Sue Coe 93"
MarkingsPublisher's blindstamp at BLC. Printer's blindstamp at BRC.
Watermark: RIVES BFK / FRANCE.
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, December 15, 1993
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1993.50
Label TextBritish-born, Coe has often expressed in her work her dedication to human and animal rights. This print is from her series "Porkopolis" dealing with the subject of slaughterhouses and cruelty to animals. As part of her research, she visited slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants in the United States. Her expressionism led her in this work to use a lithographic crayon as well as lithographic ink (tusche) to produce dark areas where the killing occurs and to use the paper as a source of dramatic light surrounding the next victim.
