Glen Baxter

The Twins Devoted an Hour Each Day to the Walnut

1978

In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

View by appointment

Artist: Glen Baxter born 1944
Part of: [no title, portfolio of six letter press prints]
Medium: Letterpress print on paper
Dimensions: Image: 111 × 150 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Purchased 1982
Reference: P07606

Catalogue entry

P07606 [from] UNTITLED PORTFOLIO 1978 [P07604–P07609; complete]

All inscribed ‘Glen Baxter 78’ bottom right and ‘31/75’

Six letterpress prints, printed at Ithaca Press, published by Anthony Stokes, in range 4×4 7/8-4 1/4×6 1/4 (10×12.5–10.7×16)
Purchased from Anthony Stokes (Grant-in-Aid) 1982

Baxter's prints are taken from original drawings and published in limited edition, postcard and book form. ‘The twins introduced the imposter’ was also published as a postcard by Anthony Stokes in 1980. ‘To me the window is still a symbolically loaded motif drawled Cody’ was also published as a postcard by Anthony Stokes (1980) and in The Impending Gleam, a book of Baxter's work published by Jonathan Cape (1981).

Published in:
The Tate Gallery 1980-82: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions, London 1984