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Print featuring thick black strokes, splatters, and mottled gray patches. Large, irregular shapes of orange, blue, dark green, and red overlap the dark marks. Thin blue zigzags and red circular scribbles are scattered throughout the composition.
Dixie Hi-Jinks
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Dixie Hi-Jinks

Artist Lee R. Chesney II (American, born 1920)
Publisher/Publishing House Alagarto Press
Date1990
MediumColor lithograph on paper
Dimensions21 1/4 x 30 in. (54 x 76.2 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of the University of Florida Department of Art and the Printmaking Program's International Visiting Artist Print Project
Object number1997.33.5
Collections
Visual DescriptionPrint featuring thick black strokes, splatters, and mottled gray patches. Large, irregular shapes of orange, blue, dark green, and red overlap the dark marks. Thin blue zigzags and red circular scribbles are scattered throughout the composition.
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