Willie Cole | Man Spirit Mask | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Title: Man Spirit Mask

Artist: Willie Cole (American, born Newark, New Jersey, 1955)

Publisher: Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions (New Brunswick, New Jersey)

Printer: Randy Hemminghaus (American, 20th–21st century)

Printer: Gail Deery (American, 19th–20th century)

Date: 1999

Medium: Left panel: Photo-etching, embossing and hand coloring
Middle panel: silkscreen with lemon juice and scorching
Right panel: photo etching and woodcut

Edition: 21/40

Dimensions: Each sheet: 39 1/8 × 26 1/2 in. (99.4 × 67.3 cm)

Classification: Prints

Credit Line: Francis Lathrop and John B. Turner Funds, 2008

Accession Number: 2008.263a–c

Inscription: Signed (in graphite on right panel, lower right): "Willie Cole"; inscribed (in graphite on left panel, lower left): 21/40

the artist, New York (1999–2008; sold through Alexander and Bonin, New York to MMA)

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Provocative Visions: Race and Identity–Selections from the Permanent Collection," August 19, 2008–March 22, 2009, no catalogue.

Cheryl Finley. "Committed to Memory: The Slave Ship Icon in the Black Atlantic Imagination." PhD diss., Yale University, 2002, p. 266, fig. 3-49.

Willie Cole: Sources & Metamorphoses. Ed. Kathy L. Greenberg. Exh. cat., Tampa Museum of Art. Tampa, Fl., 2004, pp. 4–5, ill. (not this edition).

Patterson Sims. Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands. Exh. cat., Montclair Art Museum. Montclair, N.J., 2006, pp. 72–73, 117, ill. (color) (not this edition).

Rosie Miles Gill Saunders. "Community Based Workshops." Prints Now: Directions and Definitions. London, 2006, p. 120, ill. (color).

Lei Lisa Sun in Pamela Franks and Robert E. Steele. Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, 2010, p. 29, ill. (color) (not this edition).