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Object Timeline

1982	Work on this object began.
1995	We acquired this object.
2015	We photographed this object.
2024	You found it!

Cut Paper, Hamsa (Hand)

This is a Cut paper. It was created by Tsirl Waletzky. It is dated 1982 and we acquired it in 1995. Its medium is brush and red gouache on laser-cut paper mounted on white paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Tsirl Waletzky. It is credited Gift of Tsirl Waletzky.

Print advertisement featuring in the center a large light-skin hand palm facing upwards with curved fingers, multi-colored filled squiggly teardrop shapes cascade from the top in the palm of the open hand, as if being caught. An overlaid, made up of tiny grey dots, pattern of the outlines of white flat leaves completely cover the print. Two interlocking leaves, located below the hand towards the bottom right, contain cursive text 'The Skillful hand' with small sans-serif font text underneath that describes the craftsmanship of Bianchini Fabrics in rows that follow the curves of leaves. Printed below in larger black cursive italic text in the bottom right: 'Bianchini-Férier, inc.' To the left, on the bottom edge, inside a leaf, small pink sans-serif text reads: 'A screen for fabric printing'.

Print, The Skillful Hand
offset lithograph on white paper.
Museum purchase with funding provided by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A.....
2016-54-324

Its dimensions are

14 1/16 x 11 1/16 in

It is inscribed

In white pencil, lower right: Tsirl Waletzky; lower left: A/P; lower center: Hamsa

Cite this object as

Cut Paper, Hamsa (Hand); Tsirl Waletzky (American, 1921–2011); USA; brush and red gouache on laser-cut paper mounted on white paper; 14 1/16 x 11 1/16 in; Gift of Tsirl Waletzky; 1994-123-6

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2Dzjg/
Accession Number 1994-123-6
Object ID 18647711