Page from a sketchbook: #2
Print
late 20th century (made)
late 20th century (made)
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Robert Kipniss is a painter and printmaker whose work is represented in many collections and who has exhibited widely. His work often expresses a state between imagination and reality, and in his paintings he uses a muted palette to create simplified landscapes and still lifes that verge on abstraction.
Kipniss experimented with etching and lithography in the 1960s, but in the 1980s turned to mezzotint and drypoint to achieve richer darks and more subtle light effects. Kipniss has used the technique of drypoint here as the closest way of capturing the immediacy of his sketchwork in print.
Kipniss experimented with etching and lithography in the 1960s, but in the 1980s turned to mezzotint and drypoint to achieve richer darks and more subtle light effects. Kipniss has used the technique of drypoint here as the closest way of capturing the immediacy of his sketchwork in print.
Object details
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| Title | Page from a sketchbook: #2 (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Drypoint on paper |
| Brief description | Pages from a sketchbook, No.2 by Robert Kipniss; drypoint; 2003 |
| Physical description | Drypoint of dislocated trunks and branches of trees. |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
| Copy number | 18/60 |
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| Credit line | Given by James F. White |
| Production | Attribution note: Edition of 60; artist's proofs 10 |
| Summary | Robert Kipniss is a painter and printmaker whose work is represented in many collections and who has exhibited widely. His work often expresses a state between imagination and reality, and in his paintings he uses a muted palette to create simplified landscapes and still lifes that verge on abstraction. Kipniss experimented with etching and lithography in the 1960s, but in the 1980s turned to mezzotint and drypoint to achieve richer darks and more subtle light effects. Kipniss has used the technique of drypoint here as the closest way of capturing the immediacy of his sketchwork in print. |
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| Accession number | E.271-2009 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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