Hen Eys Tru Ile, Peter Gourfain

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Peter Gourfain, Hen Eys Tru Ile
Peter Gourfain, Hen Eys Tru Ile
Peter Gourfain
Hen Eys Tru Ile
1993
Peter Gourfain
born 1934
Hen Eys Tru Ile, 1993
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: linocut
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 520 x 381 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 660 x 510 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 20 1/2 x 15 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 26 0.9843 x 20 1/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 30 x 24 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Letha Churchill Walker Memorial Art Fund
Accession number: 2002.0019
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Printed Art and Social Radicalism," Jun-2002, Stephen Goddard Peter Gourfain has been a social activist his entire career. He is fascinated by language and has developed his own alphabet (used here in his signature), and many of his works incorporate palindromes, words or phrases that read the same backward as forward. The title of this work is culled from the apparent random vertical sorting of one row of letters, which, when read in normal sequence offer the proverb: “When money speaks truth is silent.” The four corner heads are inhabited by signing hands that spell out F-E-A-R.