About this artwork
As its title indicates, this is the first print that Bontecou made. It was produced by drawing with lithographic crayon directly on limestone. As she described: “I was just testing things out on a stone. It was the first I’d ever done, so I just took different symbols and worked them out. I didn’t try to think of a composition. I just put it all on.”
Nevertheless, the forms—her signature black holes, cosmic bursts, insect-like carapaces, mutant sea creatures—are laid out with careful attention to the composition.
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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
- First Stone
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1962
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Medium
- Lithograph from one stone in black ink on cream laid paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 30.8 × 39.8 cm (12 3/16 × 15 11/16 in.); Sheet: 49.5 × 65.5 cm (19 1/2 × 25 13/16 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
- 1982.93
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