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Thomas, Mickalene. I've Been Good to Me, 2015. Mixed media collage with screenprint, mono and digital printing, leopard print paper, wood veneer, and silica flocking, Image: 130.5 x 103 cm (51 3/8 x 40 9/16 in.); Sheet: 143.5 x 114.3 cm (56 1/2 x 45 in.). Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2020.226. Copyrighted undefined.

I've Been Good to Me

2015

Mickalene Thomas

Mickalene Thomas (American, b. 1971)

Prints

I've Been Good to Me, 2015. Mickalene Thomas (American, b. 1971), Benefit Print Project (American, 2010-). Mixed media collage with screenprint, mono and digital printing, leopard print paper, wood veneer, and silica flocking; image: 130.5 x 103 cm (51 3/8 x 40 9/16 in.); sheet: 143.5 x 114.3 cm (56 1/2 x 45 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2020.226 © Mickalene Thomas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Mickalene Thomas uses collage to combine art historical and pop cultural references and question societal standards for Black femininity. Combining photography and printmaking, Thomas cultivates the aesthetic of publications such as Jet from the 1960s through 80s. This work features a woman who confidently adapts a pose from Impressionist painter Edouard Manet’s 1862 canvas Luncheon on the Grass. Each element of the collage was individually printed and hand assembled in a process that took over two years to complete. Mickalene Thomas’s interest in Jet and African American fashion publications was influenced by her mother, who dreamed of becoming a model herself.
Maker/Artist
Thomas, Mickalene
Classification
Mixed Media
Formatted Medium
Mixed media collage with screenprint, mono and digital printing, leopard print paper, wood veneer, and silica flocking
Dimensions
Image: 130.5 x 103 cm (51 3/8 x 40 9/16 in.); Sheet: 143.5 x 114.3 cm (56 1/2 x 45 in.)
Inscribed
Inscription: inscribed, at lower left, in graphite: RP 4/4; signed, in graphite, at lower right: M. Thomas 2015
Departments
Prints
Accession Number
2020.226
Credit Line
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Rights Statement
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