My Wife Doesn't Work
Poster
1980 (made)
1980 (made)
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Poster, a grid of twenty squares printed in dark blue ink, representing hours in a woman's day. The first square shows a woman at 6am attending to a baby in a crib, at 7am she is serving breakfast to a family, at 8am she is washing up, and so on. The square representing 1pm shows a man in a pub with a speech bubble printed in red, 'My Wife Doesn't Work'.
Object details
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| Title | My Wife Doesn't Work (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Screenprinted |
| Brief description | Poster by See Red Women's Workshop, 'My Wife Doesn't Work', screenprint in dark blue and red, London, 1980. |
| Physical description | Poster, a grid of twenty squares printed in dark blue ink, representing hours in a woman's day. The first square shows a woman at 6am attending to a baby in a crib, at 7am she is serving breakfast to a family, at 8am she is washing up, and so on. The square representing 1pm shows a man in a pub with a speech bubble printed in red, 'My Wife Doesn't Work'. |
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| Credit line | Given by Suzy Mackie, Pru Stevenson and Bronwen Rice in memory of Julia Franco, founder member of See Red Women's Workshop |
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| Accession number | E.90-2011 |
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| Record created | July 12, 2011 |
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