About this artwork
Untitled Etching is closely related to a group of brightly colored relief sculptures that Bontecou made in 1966. The sculptures’ striped curvilinear forms suggest the hard shells of mollusks or the billowing sails of fantastical airships, neither entirely manmade nor entirely natural. In this print, the artist experimented with a palette similar to her sculptures (black accompanied by orange, red, or brown), finally settling upon black and orange for the published print.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Lee Bontecou
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Title
- Untitled Etching
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1967
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Medium
- Etching from one plate in black ink on ivory wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image/plate: 65.9 × 43.4 cm (26 × 17 1/8 in.); Sheet: 74.8 × 50 cm (29 1/2 × 19 11/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- U.L.A.E. Collection acquired through a challenge grant of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dittmer; purchased with funds provided by supporters of the Department of Prints and Drawings; Centennial Endowment; Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund
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Reference Number
- 1982.103d
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