About this artwork
Bontecou referred to First Stone and Second Stone as experiments. For Third Stone, “I pushed harder,” she said, describing a more finished drawing. “It’s related to [my] sculpture, but it wasn’t for any particular sculpture. I was happy to find that in drawings or in litho, I could be so much more free—was not bound by the material. Endless space—whereas in the sculpture I have to have a frame, something to stop it.”
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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
- Third Stone
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1963
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Medium
- Lithograph from one stone in black ink on ivory laid paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 42.9 × 34.4 cm (16 15/16 × 13 9/16 in.); Sheet: 65.2 × 50.5 cm (25 11/16 × 19 15/16 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
- 1982.96
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