Black Snake Blues

1994

offset color lithograph on wove paper

21-3/4 x 29-3/4 inches (sheet)

signed, titled, dated and numbered 26/70

Printed and published by the Brandywine Workshop,

Philadelphia, with the blind stamp lower left.

The title Black Snake Blues comes from the 1927 blues song by Victoria Spivey, best known as Queen Victoria. In the song, she describes how a snake led her astray, referencing the biblical story of the temptation of Eve.