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Mop This by Jennifer Mack-Watkins — Japanese Silkscreen, 2014

Mop This

by Jennifer Mack-Watkins

Date:
2014
Medium:
Silkscreen
Image courtesy of
Artsy

Description

This isn't a Japanese print. The image is a bold-outline, flat-color pop-art style silkscreen showing a young Black woman in a pink skirt, white top, and pink heels, leg kicked up mid-pose while leaning on a mop with a swirly black-and-white mophead; she's in a stylized kitchen with a black-and-white checkerboard floor, a stove on the left, wood-paneled walls, and a window with a small vase of red flowers behind her. That matches the given facts (Jennifer Mack-Watkins, "Mop This," 2014, silkscreen) — she's a contemporary American printmaker — but there's nothing Japanese or ukiyo-e about the subject, style, or medium here.

Given the active content-recovery/fabrication cleanup on this branch, this looks like a data error (a mismatched or out-of-scope entry) rather than something that needs better catalog copy. Writing a polished "museum catalog" description for it would just launder a bad record. Want me to flag this artwork for removal/review instead of describing it?

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Frequently Asked Questions

Mop This was created by Jennifer Mack-Watkins in 2014.

Mop This uses Silkscreen, on silkscreen.