She Escaped the Circus and was Shot 98 Times
Sue Coe, She Escaped the Circus and was Shot 98 Times, 2007, soft-ground etching on paper, Gift of the Printmaking Department, Pacific Northwest College of Art, © Sue Coe, Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 2008.67
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- Title
She Escaped the Circus and was Shot 98 Times
- Artist
Sue Coe (British and American, active United States, born 1951)
- Related People
printer: Tom Prochaska (American, born Czechoslovakia, born 1945)
- Date
2007
- Medium
soft-ground etching on paper
- Edition
30/32
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
plate: 5 13/16 in x 7 15/16 in; sheet: 11 1/4 in x 15 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
title: She escaped the circus and was/shot 98 times, inscribed, in the plate in the area of the sky
signature: Sue Coe 07, graphite, below the platemark, l.r.
edition: 30/32, graphite, below the platemark., l.l.
Chopmark: MARS, lower left margin
inscription: W MRT, inscribed, on building
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
intaglio print
- Culture
British
- Credit Line
Gift of the Printmaking Department, Pacific Northwest College of Art
- Accession Number
2008.67
- Copyright
© Sue Coe, Courtesy Galerie St. Etienne, New York
- Terms
British-born artist and activist Sue Coe is one of the most politically engaged printmakers in the United States. She uses her graphic art as a vehicle to expose injustice, particularly in the area of animal rights. The suffering of circus animals is a recurring theme in her oeuvre. While visiting the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland in 2007, the artist created this print, alluding to the elephant Tyke, who was shot eighty-six times in the streets of Kakaako, Hawaii, when she escaped the circus after crushing her trainer to death during a performance in 1994. Coe lives and works in upstate New York.
- Exhibitions
2008 Making Merry: the Circus and Carnival in Graphic Art Portland Art Museum
