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Gallery: Jim Dine’s prints at WSU
Artist Jim Dine gave WSU The Technicolor Heart in 2004. Now he has donated a significant collection of more than 200 of his prints to the University, including the selections in this gallery.
Read more in “Where the heart is.”
Courtesy WSU Museum of Art
Where the heart is
Ten years ago, artist Jim Dine left his heart in Pullman. The 12-foot-tall painted bronze sculpture called The Technicolor Heart—a blue beacon covered with ordinary items like hammers, shoes, clamps, and flashlights—has stirred conversation and controversy.
Now the world-famous sculptor and printmaker is giving Washington State University a whole collection of more than 200 prints representing his work from 1967 to 2011. Valued at over $1.8 million, this print donation will be the largest university museum collection of Dine prints in the world and one of the largest collections of his prints ever assembled.
Cincinnati native Dine grew up around his grandfather’s hardware store and … » More …