Underground
Print
1951 (printed)
1951 (printed)
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This print is significant for being one of the earliest examples of screenprint used as a fine art medium in Britain. Peter Lanyon (1918-1964) made it under the instruction of Warren Mackenzie (b. 1924), an artist and ceramicist from the USA, where the process was already in use for artists' prints. Lanyon's method of washing off the preliminary stencil colours with turpentine left the translucent stain that forms the background of this image. The title Underground refers to the mines and shafts, burial grounds and subterranean caves that Lanyon, as a Cornishman, was deeply aware formed another kind of space beneath the free and open surface of Cornwall's landscape in the remote southwest of Britain.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Underground (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour screenprint on paper |
| Brief description | Colour screenprint entitled 'Underground' by Peter Lanyon. Great Britain, 1951. |
| Physical description | Colour screen print on paper: ochery- green ground, pale blue square outline in centre around two red ovals separated by blue line; over the red ovals black calligraphic lines. |
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| Production type | Limited edition |
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| Production | This is one of the earliest examples of screen print used as a fine art process in Britain. Attribution note: Only a very few impressions were pulled of this print |
| Summary | This print is significant for being one of the earliest examples of screenprint used as a fine art medium in Britain. Peter Lanyon (1918-1964) made it under the instruction of Warren Mackenzie (b. 1924), an artist and ceramicist from the USA, where the process was already in use for artists' prints. Lanyon's method of washing off the preliminary stencil colours with turpentine left the translucent stain that forms the background of this image. The title Underground refers to the mines and shafts, burial grounds and subterranean caves that Lanyon, as a Cornishman, was deeply aware formed another kind of space beneath the free and open surface of Cornwall's landscape in the remote southwest of Britain. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.387-1960 |
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| Record created | December 15, 2002 |
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