City Lights (Prophet with No Tongue)
- Date
- 1988
- Material
- Offset lithograph and screenprint
- printed in
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Collages & montages, prints
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet (irregular): 28 1/8 × 32 1/8 in. (71.4 × 81.6 cm)
framed: 33 5/8 × 37 1/8 × 2 in. (85.4 × 94.3 × 5.1 cm) - Credit Line
- The Thelma and Bert Ollie Memorial Collection, Gift of Ronald and Monique Ollie
- Rights
- © Mary Lovelace O'Neal
- Object Number
- 177:2017
NOTES
This print is constructed of cut paper inked with colors that evoke a city skyline. The deep blue is punctuated by bright pinks and yellows—evidence of bright lights in a bustling metropolis—and the irregular shape evokes a silhouetted cityscape. Mary Lovelace O’Neal worked primarily as a painter until 1984, when Robert Blackburn invited her to his printmaking studio. Captivated by the print medium, she created this work at the Brandywine Workshop in Philadelphia in 1988.
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