An Untamed Bond, Part 2 of 5 of The Allegory of Atalanta, linocut, 2020. Edition of 6, printed on Arnhem 1618, 16 x 22 inches. When Atalanta was born, her father had hoped for a boy and so he left her on a mountainside to die of exposure as was the practice with unwanted girls or disabled children. Artemis, in the form of a shebear, found her and suckled her. She was raised as one of Artemis’ huntresses.

Anna Williams

An Untamed Bond, Part 2 of 5 of The Allegory of Atalanta, linocut, 2020.  Edition of 6, printed on Arnhem 1618, 16 x 22 inches.

When Atalanta was born, her father had hoped for a boy and so he left her on a mountainside to die of exposure as was the practice with unwanted girls or disabled children. Artemis, in the form of a shebear, found her and suckled her. She was raised as one of Artemis’ huntresses.

Printed on the artist's ingenious home-made printing press (made of a car jack, melamine and oak).

 

$850.00