The Illustrated Page Series #1

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The Illustrated Page Series #1

2005-2006

Shahzia Sikander (Pakistani (active United States), born 1969) In collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (founded 1977) Printed by Jean-Paul Russell and Ann Marshall at Durham Press, Durham, Pennsylvania

Sikander intricately inserts modern imagery into works that employ the style, technique, and imagery of ancient Pakistani and Indian miniature paintings. This unique mixed-media piece is the first in a series of three monumental diptychs designed to suggest two pages of an open book. Working on an elaborately patterned silkscreen base, which she printed with Durham Press, Sikander added opaque watercolor and gold-leaf details by hand and oversaw the execution of some of them by artist assistants at the Fabric Workshop and Museum-thereby imitating a traditional collaborative artistic practice used in Indian and Pakistani workshops.

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Object Details

Titles:

The Illustrated Page Series #1

Date:

2005-2006

Artists:

Shahzia Sikander (Pakistani (active United States), born 1969) In collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (founded 1977) Printed by Jean-Paul Russell and Ann Marshall at Durham Press, Durham, Pennsylvania

Medium:

Opaque watercolor hand painting, gold leaf, and silkscreen pigment on paper (diptych)

Dimensions:

Overall: 56 5/8 × 71 15/16 × 1 1/2 inches (143.8 × 182.7 × 3.8 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Marion Stroud Fund for Contemporary Art on Paper in honor of Innis Howe Shoemaker, 2006

Accession Number:

2006-138-1a,b

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