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Why did Jim Dine draw tools?
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Jim Dine drew tools for several reasons. He believes that tools connect humans with the past, and he is interested in capturing the history of humanity through the tools used by previous generations in his art. In addition, tools hold personal significance for Dine, whose family owned a hardware store in Cincinnati, Ohio. On 1stDibs, find a collection of Jim Dine art.
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Small Pinocchio Aquatint Etching Jim Dine Pop Art Print
By Jim Dine
Located in Surfside, FL
Jim Dine (American, b. 1935)
Etching depicting Pinocchio
Published by Enitharmon Press for Whitman College, London 1999
Hand signed in pencil lower right. Measures 9" x 7" sheet siz...
Category
1990s Pop Art More Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Jim Dine - print with hand coloring in oil stick, Signed, Framed, unique variant
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine
The Christmas Print (Burg, 26), 2001
Drypoint, direct gravure, etching over offset lithograph with hand coloring by artist in oil stick, on T.H. Saunders paper, the full she...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Oil Crayon, Drypoint, Etching, Offset
Tool Drypoint: Paintbrush by Jim Dine, black and white tool still life sketch
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine drew the plate for this image in the same period as his “Thirty Bones of My Body” 1972 portfolio of drypoint tool images. Crisbrook paper (30 x 22 in. / 76.2 x 56 cm.) and p...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
The Old Professor (Oo La La) Jim Dine lithograph and Ron Padgett poetry
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Bright orange leaps up like flames, or swaying grass, over which hovers a large-eyed bee sketched in black and orange. Over the fire-red in neat handwriting Ron Padgett's poem: “The ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Limited Edition Williams College Museum exhibition print on lithographic paper
By Jim Dine
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine
Limited Edition Williams College Museum print, 1976
Offset lithograph poster on off white wove lithographic paper
Limited edition of 300
Published by Pace Editions, with co...
Category
1970s Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Louisiana Hearts
By Jim Dine
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Jim Dine
Title: Louisiana Hearts
Year: 1982
Medium: Lithograph and etching in colors on TH Saunders paper
Edition: 100; signed, numbered and dated in pencil
Sheet: 17 1/2 x 1...
Category
1980s Pop Art More Prints
Materials
Etching, Lithograph


