Alison Saar usually makes prints after her sculptures; in fact, she refers to these works as “post-studies” or “portraits” of her multi-media compositions. Sweeping Beauty is a reevaluation of a sculpture from a series of feminist works in which she merged female figures with household tools and other everyday objects such as a broom (reproduced below). Not only has Saar shifted the positioning of the woman’s arms, but her woodcut, with its massive dimensions (double the size of its sculptural inspiration) and vibrant coloring is a more dramatic take on the subject.