Glen Baxter Presents...
Glen Baxter
British
1984
A tied portfolio of five lithographic prints in which Glen Baxter uses faux‑Victorian drawing and deadpan captions to stage absurd, comic vignettes that poke fun at adventure and pretension.
At first glance the brown paper portfolio, ribbon tie, and a wood‑engraving‑style image of a startled man are jarringly ordinary until your eye is arrested by the skewed placard reading “GLEN BAXTER PRESENTS...,” giving the piece a theatrical, gently ridiculous energy.
Baxter’s work blurred the lines between cartooning, Surrealism, and conceptual art, advancing a form of literate visual humor that opened new possibilities for text‑image play in contemporary printmaking.
Medium
Five lithographs
Classification
Department
Credit
Purchase
Accession
1.1985.1-5
Palette
Exhibitions
