Artist: Mauricio Lasansky (Argentinean, 1914-2012)
Title: Self Portrait
Date: 1957
Accession #: LTL.99.05
Medium: color intaglio: engraving, electric stippler, scraping and burnishing
Dimensions: frame: 44 1/2 x 28 in., image: 35 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.
Acquired by: On long-term loan from the Carnegie-Stout Public Library
About the Artist: Mauricio Lasansky was a talented printmaker, and was given an opportunity to come to the United States as a result of the Guggenheum Fellowship. He was a professor of art and art history at the University of Iowa. Lasansky resides in Iowa City.