Author: Crumb, Robert
Title: A Short History of America * 15 Panel Variant * Crumb's First Serigraph
Place Published: Wisconsin
Publisher:Kitchen Sink Press
Date Published: 1993
Description: 22" x 29.5" (image area 19.5" x 22"). 24 color serigraph print on acid-free deckle-edge heavy rag paper. Fine/very fine, minor soil spots, one bump along top edge, rag edge of paper wrapping around cardboard slightly along top edge. Signed by Crumb, #71/250."This timeless metamorphosis image originally appeared in the 1970s in black & white in Snoid Comics and in Co-Evolution Quarterly, acquiring cult status. It then became a very popular 12-panel poster from Kitchen Sink, ending with the 'What Next??' panel. Crumb then added new speculative panels showing three future scenarios for our endangered planet: ecological disaster, technological supremacy or Ecotopia (his vote).

"All 15 panels were incorporated into this seventeen-color hand-pulled serigraph, signed & numbered by Crumb.... Crumb some years later authorized another publisher (Wildwood) to produce a variant serigraph incorporating the 12-panel version of 'A Short History of America.'
The quality of that edition is also the highest, but serious art collectors and investors should be aware of the distinction between these similar editions which are several years apart. This physically larger 15-panel serigraph is Crumb's very first serigraph, representing his entreé into the fine art world." – Denis Kitchen's website.______________________________________________________________

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