Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.

Grey Sitting with Me

Artist Jim Dine (American, b. 1935)

Date1996

MediumIntaglio print

DimensionsOverall, Frame: 45 x 61 in. (114.3 x 154.9 cm)

ClassificationsContemporary art

Credit LineGift of Leah Waitzer in honor of Richard Waitzer and Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. by exchange

Object number2007.20.2

Terms

Bathrobe
Gray
Black

On View

Not on view

DescriptionThis framed intaglio print is of a bathrobe. The entire print is gray with a black outline of an empty bathrobe with the hands at hip.

Label TextJim Dine American, b. 1935 Red Sitting with Me, 1996 Grey Sitting with Me, 1996 Intaglio prints Jim Dine transforms familiar, everyday objects—a set of tools, a valentine, a bathrobe—into subjects with remarkable power and a sense of dark mystery. Here, the artist’s bathrobe becomes a searching self portrait. By working and reworking the subject, the empty robes seem to fill with a distinctly human presence. Exploring the question “Who am I?” Dine answers, not by drawing his own face, but by meditating on a beloved article of clothing. Gift of Leah Waitzer, in honor of Richard Waitzer, and gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange 2007.20.1–.2