About this artwork
Cy Twombly experimented with mezzotints at Universal Limited Art Editions workshop in Long Island, New York, in 1968, around when Robert Motherwell produced his window-like mezzotints there. The press had only recently established an intaglio studio in 1966, but as a result, Lee Bontecou, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, and Twombly had all started making intaglio prints before 1967. Frankenthaler would use mezzotint among other techniques in several prints beginning in the 1980s, and even Johns would eventually produce a colorful mezzotint series in 1995.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Cy Twombly
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Title
- Untitled Mezzotint
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1968
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Medium
- Mezzotint and drypoint in black on cream laid paper
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Dimensions
- Image/plate: 22.4 × 14.8 cm (8 7/8 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 50.7 × 40.7 cm (20 × 16 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
- 1982.569
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Copyright
- © Cy Twombly Foundation
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