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Though she would later gain considerable fame for her sculptures made with unconventional materials like rubber, latex, and fiberglass, Eva Hesse entered the professional art world through printmaking. Hesse executed this print while she was an art student in New York. Her early explorations of the human body in print likely informed her future sculpture, which frequently alludes to different parts of the body. In 1970, the Allen was the first museum to purchase a sculpture by Hesse, Laocoön, now on view in the Ellen Johnson Gallery.

Despite her productivity as an artist, her career was short-lived. Hesse passed away at the young age of thirty-four due to a brain tumor. After Hesse’s death, her sister donated the artist’s papers and works to the Allen; today this material is preserved as an archive for teaching and research.