About this artwork
In 1972, Donn H. Steward saw Degas’s Head of a Woman in Profile at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Captivated by the artist’s use of liquid aquatint— a process where the resin is dissolved in strong alcohol—Steward set out to master the technique. Once he achieved his desired results, he suggested it to Frankenthaler as yet another medium with which to achieve her painterly concerns in print.
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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
- Message from Degas
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1972–1974
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Medium
- Aquatint with etching from three plates on white wove paper
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Dimensions
- Image/plate: 18.7 × 25 cm (7 3/8 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 53.6 × 66.2 cm (21 1/8 × 26 1/8 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
- 1982.489f
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Copyright
- © 2018 Helen Frankenthaler / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York