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"Come Away from Her"

Kiki Smith; After Lewis Carroll

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Come Away from Her is based on a manuscript drawing by Lewis Carroll for his book Alice's Adventures Under Ground (1864). At this point in his story, friendly birds fly off when Alice talks about what her cat likes to eat. In Kiki Smith's prints based on fairytales, childhood vulnerability and innocence like Alice's can be imbued with a sense of the sexual awakening that accompanies adolescence, and the animals sometimes shown with young girls suggest underlying forces of nature. Here we witness a cryptic scene, as Alice watches winged forms, some of them with incongruous limbs, fly away from her.

Caption

Kiki Smith (American, born Germany, 1954); After Lewis Carroll (British, 1832–1898). "Come Away from Her", 2003. Intaglio with hand applied watercolor, Sheet: 50 3/8 x 73 1/2 in. (128 x 186.7 cm) Image: 45 3/4 x 69 1/2 in. (116.2 x 176.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Prints and Photographs Council, 2004.22. © Kiki Smith. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

"Come Away from Her"

Date

2003

Medium

Intaglio with hand applied watercolor

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Sheet: 50 3/8 x 73 1/2 in. (128 x 186.7 cm) Image: 45 3/4 x 69 1/2 in. (116.2 x 176.5 cm)

Signatures

Signed lower right in graphite: "Kiki Smith 2003"

Credit Line

Gift of the Prints and Photographs Council

Accession Number

2004.22

Rights

© Kiki Smith

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Artists and makers

Kiki Smith

32 works in the collection

Lewis Carroll

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