The Passage
Print
1990 (made)
1990 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
John Bowman works with painting, drawing and sculpture, as well as print. His prints (which he calls 'erasures') are often richly atmospheric views of cityscapes, as here.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | The Passage (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Aquatint with hand-colouring |
| Brief description | Print, The Passage, aquatint with hand colouring, John Bowman, 1990 |
| Physical description | Print, upright format with silhouetted view of a turretted building against a cloudy sky, with a taxi and other vehicles in the foreground. |
| Dimensions |
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| Copy number | 25/67 |
| Marks and inscriptions | 25/67 The Passage Bowman 1990 (Edition number; title; signature; date. All in pencil.) |
| Credit line | Given by the American Friends of the V&A through the generosity of Mindy and Ramon Tüblitz |
| Object history | The Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios was established at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in 1982 as a repository for prints and supplementary materials relating to an outstanding group of contemporary American printmaking workshops. They commissioned and in some cases published the prints. This print is one of a group purchased over a period of years by Mr and Mrs Ramon Tüblitz, and subsequently donated to the V&A through the American Friends of the V&A. Mr Tüblitz is a Trustee of the Zimmerli Art Museum. |
| Summary | John Bowman works with painting, drawing and sculpture, as well as print. His prints (which he calls 'erasures') are often richly atmospheric views of cityscapes, as here. |
| Other number | LOAN:AMERICANFRIENDS.492-2007 - Previous loan number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.342-2012 |
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| Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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