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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Chapter 1: How it came to pass that Master Cherru the carpenter found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.

Chapter 1: How it came to pass that Master Cherru the carpenter found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child

Artist Jim Dine (American, b. 1935)
CultureAmerican
Date2006
MediumLithograph
DimensionsPaper: 22 × 17 1/2 in. (55.9 × 44.5 cm)
Portfolio wood box: 24 × 19 1/2 × 3 in. (61 × 49.5 × 7.6 cm)
PortfolioPinocchio (Portfolio), edition 17/35
Credit LineGift of Charlotte and Gil Minor
Object number2019.17.1.5
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DescriptionOne of 44 lithographs that present the original story of Pinocchio. Depicts a tree and splatter paint over top of writing in bright primary colors and different fonts.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Jim Dine
Chapter 2: Master Cherry makes a present of the piece of wood to his friend Geppetto, who takes it to make for himself a wonderful puppet, that shall know how to dance, and to fence, and to leap like an acrobat
2006
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Jim Dine
Chapter 28: Pinocchio is in danger of beeing fried in a frying pan like a fish
2006
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Jim Dine
Chapter 12: The showman, Fire-eater, makes Pinocchio a present of five gold pieces to take home to his father, Geppetto, but Pinocchio instead allows himself to be taken in by the Fox and the Cat and goes with them
2006
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Jim Dine
Chapter 35: Pinocchio finds in the body of the Dogfish... whom does he find? Read this chapter and you will know
2006
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Jim Dine
Chapter 6: Pinocchio falls asleep with his feet on the brazier, and wakes in the morning to find them burnt off
2006
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Jim Dine
Chapter 20: Liberated from prison, he starts to return to the Fairy's house, but on the road he meets with a horrible Serpent, and afterwards he is caught in a trap
2006
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Jim Dine
Chapter 25: Pinocchio promises the Fairy o be good and studious, for he is quite sick of being a puppet and wishes to become an exemplary boy
2006
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Jim Dine
Chapter 7: Geppetto returns home and gives Pinocchio the breakfast that the poor man had brought for himself
2006
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Jim Dine
Chapter 8: Geppetto makes Pinocchio new feet, and sells his own coat to buy him a spelling book
2006
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Jim Dine
Chapter 36: Pinocchio at last ceases to be a puppet and becomes a boy
2006
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Jim Dine
Chapter 4: The Story of Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, from which we see that naughty boys cannot endure to be corrected by those who know more than they do
2006
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.
Jim Dine
Chapter 5: Pinocchio is hungry and searches for an egg to make himself an omelet; but just at the most interesting moment the omelet flies out the window
2006
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