Voodoo of the Western World

Marvin Lowe

Marvin Lowe, who played saxophone with Artie Shaw's band as a youth, was another printmaker who studied experimental intaglio with Mauricio Lasansky at Iowa, at the advice of artist/friend and fellow jazz musician, Larry Rivers. He earned his MFA in printmaking at Iowa in 1960.

"Voodoo of the Western World" is a multicolor intaglio with scraping, printed in grey, brown, purple, orange, and three shades of red. This impression was printed and published by the artist and The Lakeside Studio, (blindstamp lower right). The screenprints, a series of color hexagons, printed at the outer edges of the composition, were printed by Lowe in his studio.

An impression of this print is illustrated in color on page 111 of "The Print Renaissance in America: A Revolution", 2015, by Ronald Ruble. ISBN: 978-0-9861109-1-7.