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Crocodile Moon Dance
Portfolio/SeriesMoon Print Series
Artist
Caroline Thorington
(United States, born 1943)
Date1995
MediumColor lithograph with chine-collé on paper
DimensionsIMAGE: 15 13/16 x 21 1/2 in.
IMAGE: 402 x 546 mm
SHEET: 19 7/8 x 25 3/8 in.
SHEET: 505 x 644 mm
IMAGE: 402 x 546 mm
SHEET: 19 7/8 x 25 3/8 in.
SHEET: 505 x 644 mm
Object TypePrints
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Caroline Thorington
Edition6/30
Object number2017.279
On View
Not on view- Thorington’s Moon Print Series, which includes Crocodile Moon Dance, was inspired by a total eclipse of the moon in 1989.
- The artist’s prints often feature animals. Her husband Richard was a zoologist and curator at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.
- The artist has said: “I drew animals as a child and saw no reason for excluding them as I grew older. In fact, I could not. They creep into my work uninvited and take it over. They make puns and play jokes, hide and make ribald statements. They are animate beings that tell stories.”
- She adds: “I only draw them as they want to be. Sometimes they appear as in a dream—morphed into fantastical beings: half human, half animal and half something else. Other times they take on a more classical tone becoming the creatures of legend and myth.”
Exhibitions
