St. Marks

Lamar Dodd

1958

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This print represents an orange central abstract form on a yellow background with four abstract, light green, snake-like components in each corner. It represents abstract but anthropomorphic forms resembling folds of skin, eyes, and a bulbous nose. The image is centered, extending beyond the top and bottom of the plate, with vacant space colored by the plate at its left and right.
This image is created with black ink on white paper. It shows a board house with a boarded up chimney and a partially boarded up window, as well as a lurching dogleg off of the back. In the side yard of the house—which is the lower portion of the image—there are two barren trees and a group of three figures playing with a possum. Behind the group of figures is a fenced garden, and behind the fenced garden is a distant row of homes. There are trees behind the homes.
A black and white photograph of a wall constructed of large wooden planks. On the wall a few kitchen utensils like spoons, forks and knives are wedged behind a small strip of wood. Above, on a thin shelf a lone mason jar sits, with a metal oil can or pale hanging from a nail along with a metallic lid or plate with a small hole in its middle.
Little Church Around the Corner, Lucy Jane Salter, woodcut