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• Title: "Malignant neoplasms (Cancer)" / Sandow Birk 2005.
• Creator(s): Birk, Sandow, 1964-, artist
• Date Created/Published: [Place not identified] : [Publisher not identified], 2005.
• Medium: 1 print : etching ; plate 52.6 x 42.6 cm, on sheet 75.3 x 56.9 cm.
• Summary: Print shows an overweight man sitting at a desk in an office, using a keyboard and mouse while focused on the monitor; an oversized jug of drink is on the desk next to an ashtray, and on the left is a fast food meal of a large hamburger with french fries.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-55796 (digital file from original drawing)
• Rights Advisory: Rights status not evaluated. For general information see: "Copyright and Other Restrictions...,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html)
  
• Access Advisory: Served by appointment (Unprocessed). To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials,"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html)
• Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2012:078.04 [item] [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Caption label from exhibit Art in Action Health, Smoking: Leading Causes of Death in America. Sandow Birk's darkly satirical etching series takes inspiration from the work of realist painter/printmaker George Bellows and the Ashcan School practice of portraying the lives of everyday people. Here we see a harried office worker who is smoking while typing at a computer. Birk enhances the sense of stress and pressed time with surrounding clutter including file folders, post-it notes, a cell phone or pager, and fast food meal of a burger and french fries. The title, Malignant Neoplasms (Cancer), suggests a sinister future.
  • Title from item.
  • Signed and dated in pencil on lower right.
  • "Circle, square, triangle" blindstamp on lower right corner.
  • Watermark on lower left margin: Somerset England.
  • Purchase; Catharine Clark Gallery; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:078).
  • Exhibited: "Art in Action : Herblock and Fellow Artists Respond to Their Times" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., January 31 - August 17, 2019.
• Subjects:
  • Office workers--2000-2010.
  • Offices--2000-2010.
  • Computers--2000-2010.
  • Smoking--2000-2010.
  • Convenience foods--2000-2010.
  • Obesity--2000-2010.
  • Sitting--2000-2010.
  • Cancer--2000-2010.
• Format:
  • Etchings--2000-2010.
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• Rights Advisory: Rights status not evaluated. For general information see: "Copyright and Other Restrictions...," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-55796 (digital file from original drawing)
• Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2012:078.04 [item] [P&P]
• Medium: 1 print : etching ; plate 52.6 x 42.6 cm, on sheet 75.3 x 56.9 cm.

• Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2012:078.04 [item] [P&P]
• Medium: 1 print : etching ; plate 52.6 x 42.6 cm, on sheet 75.3 x 56.9 cm.
• Access Advisory: Served by appointment (Unprocessed). To make a request, see "Access to Unprocessed Materials," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/info/022_unpr.html

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