Nameless

Deborah Dancy, artist

born 1949

Vermont Studio Center, publisher

Sarah Amos, printer

Nameless, 2001

Where object was made: Johnson, Vermont, United States

Material/technique: collagraph; Arches® wove paper; color intaglio

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 505 x 407 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 505 x 407 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 19 7/8 x 16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 7/8 x 16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 32 x 24 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Elmer F. Pierson Fund

Accession number: 2002.0071

On display: Simons Gallery

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In the middle of an abstract field of color are two Black disembodied hands that are untangling and cleaning cotton. There are ruffled sleeve cuffs at the wrists, possibly made from the same type of cotton the hands are cleaning. The hands float as if invisibly held, summoning the untold numbers of enslaved women, men, and children whose forced labor in cotton fields is often nameless and forgotten.