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15 Items in this Learning Collection
A Lie
This is a line drawing done in colors of red, orange, blue, yellow, brown and green, on white paper. In the top center portion of the sheet are the words, "A LIE". Below this are forms that resemble an egg, a slice of bacon, a piece of bread with a pat of yellow butter. Below these forms are some round shapes, labeled "flakes", a bowl and a carton of milk, labeled "milk".
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Line A-C
This mixed media collage consists of a long skein of yarn of varying colors attached at point A at the top of the print, creating a jumbled mass of yarn below and exiting at point C, also at the top of the canvas.
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Hiroshima Series

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Urban Daydream II
This print is a colorful image of a sink filled with green water. At the center, there is a miniature boat that floats in the water. On the counter-space of the sink at the back, there sits various toiletries such as mouthwash, perfume, toothbrushes, and a razor. Almost out of the frame, a red washcloth hangs off the left edge of the sink. The print is signed (l.r.) "Doug Webb" and numbered (l.l.) "AP 24/75" in pencil.
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Marilyn Monroe
Bust-length portrait of Marilyn Monroe positioned in front of a red background; Haring used a poster of the actress onto which he applied sumi ink in a series of outlines, marks and drips over the face, neck, chest and shoulders.
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Before the Mirror

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Felix, Gladys and Rover, New York City, from "Master Prints Volume I"

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Cleanliness is Next to Godliness
This print shows a landscape with a mountain rising in the middle of the background. There are trees and grass in front, and a body of water in the foreground. At the center, on the edge of the water, sits a faucet, a razor, and a toothbrush in a clear glass as if the body of water is a sink.<br /> The print is signed (l.r.) "Doug Webb" and numbered (l.l.) "197/275" in pencil.
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Untitled
This print has rows of stencilled black text in all capital letters on white background. In pencil, the print is signed and dated (l.r.) "Glenn Lignon '92" and numbered (l.l.) "27/45". 
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Figure and Squares, Toronto, Canada, from "Society's Man"

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Jessica, 13, orders a nonalcoholic drink at a party, Beverly Hills
A photograph of a young girl ordering a drink at a bar. She holds her arm up, revealing a watch, and wears sunglasses on her head. A large red drink sits in the foreground on the bar and a neon sign hangs in the background.
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After Manet
This image is a circular format black and white photograph depicting four young African American girls wearing floral dresses lounging on a blanket in the grass. Three girls sit or prop themselves up and look at the camera, the fourth girl lays down, with her eyes closed. The glass in the frame has a domed surface, creating a fish-eye effect.
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Inside Down Under... What are the building blocks of structuralism?
This multi-colored photolithograph has an image of Minnie Mouse at the left center surrounded by a variety of geometric shapes and lines. Minnie Mouse's body is made up of dots. Below the figure, there is small, blurry text that reads "April 12, 1945." 
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Stravinsky
A series of ink dots, placed over six staffs of music notation, form a pair of spectacles, an eye, a nose, and lips.
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Untitled
White glazed porcelain pitcher with two different black silhouette faces in profile, one on each side.
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Cleanliness is Next to Godliness

Accession Number
2004/2.40

Title
Cleanliness is Next to Godliness

Artist(s)
Doug Webb

Artist Nationality
American (North American)

Object Creation Date
circa 1985

Medium & Support
screenprint on paper

Dimensions
29 1/2 in x 36 in (74.93 cm x 91.44 cm);21 1/2 in x 29 in (54.61 cm x 73.66 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Jack A. and Noreen Rounick

Subject matter
Webb explores the paradoxes created by opposing urbanity and nature in this print. Known for his hyper-realistic paintings that mix up everyday scenes, the design for this print is derived from a 1980 acrylic painting of the same title. In this print, a picturesque mountain landscape is fractured by the lake—referencing a sink—with a tooth brush waiting by the shore. The title, an old protestant adage, suggests a value judgement, if satirically. Here, Webb displays the mundane routine of personal hygene in the context of a pristene landscape—visually connecting the bathroom to god's creation.

Physical Description
This print shows a landscape with a mountain rising in the middle of the background. There are trees and grass in front, and a body of water in the foreground. At the center, on the edge of the water, sits a faucet, a razor, and a toothbrush in a clear glass as if the body of water is a sink.
The print is signed (l.r.) "Doug Webb" and numbered (l.l.) "197/275" in pencil.

Primary Object Classification
Print

Collection Area
Modern and Contemporary

Rights
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Keywords
bathrooms
landscapes (representations)
mountains
realism (artistic form of expression)
screen prints
self-taught artists

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