About this artwork
A grant from the National Endowment for the Arts enabled U.L.A.E. to add an intaglio studio to the workshop in 1967. Under the guidance of Donn H. Steward, Frankenthaler produced her first intaglio print, Yellow Span, the following year. Aquatint, an intaglio technique developed to create tonal effects in prints, was particularly suited for the artist, who preferred that her color pour, spill, bleed, or flood the picture’s surface.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Helen Frankenthaler
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Title
- Yellow Span
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1968
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Medium
- Color sugar-lift aquatint from two plates, with graphite notations on white laid paper
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Dimensions
- Image/plate: 35.6 × 47.2 cm (14 1/16 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 50.5 × 66.1 cm (19 15/16 × 26 1/16 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
- 1982.468d
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Copyright
- © 2018 Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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