OHRA 1974

1974 Ethel Rosenberg

Ethel Rosenberg
Art: 1974 (hand-printed on May 13, 1974) In pencil,
below the image: Ethel Rosenberg after Julius’s arrest – in her apartment   Ken Segan  5/13/74   23/23
Media: Linocut, printed in bright red block-print ink
Image size: 12 inch H x 10 W
The sole proof I have is numbered 23/23. It’s a rare example of my having decided on an edition number and having completed it.

My critique, Oct. 2018: I don’t think this print succeeds as a planographic image (woodcut, lino) as it has a lot of thin lines in tonal background areas. While the lines are visible, they lack the symbiosis common in woodcuts and linocuts of dramatic sections of color (regardless of whether black, or a color) next to sections of white.
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At the time, I gave a proof to each of the other students, and one to the instructor, of a class I took at Parkland (Jr) College, Champaign. I forget the name of the class, and the instructors name. The class had to do with political events and analysis and social justice. For a class reading assignment I recall we read the book Blaming the Victim, by William Ryan (1924 – 2002). The book was by Pantheon (publishers), 1971; reissued in 1976.