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Preview image of work. etching and spit bite on Magnani Pescia paper, For Sam Francis - Indoor / Outdoor 28044

2014.37

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For Sam Francis - Indoor / Outdoor

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Artist

Richard Tuttle (Rahway, New Jersey, 7/12/1941 - )

Title

For Sam Francis - Indoor / Outdoor

Creation Date

2013

Century

early 21st century

Dimensions

20 x 18 in. (50.8 x 45.72 cm)

Object Type

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

etching and spit bite on Magnani Pescia paper

Credit Line

Gift of Jacob Samuel

Copyright

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Accession Number

2014.37

With this print Tuttle returned to traditional printing processes. He selected six gridded areas on a piece of graph paper and transferred them to the hard-ground plate, adding the lines with an etching needle. This image was transferred to a second aquatint plate, on which Tuttle then painted directly with nitric acid mixed to three different strengths before it was printed as spit bite. Printing from two plates what could have been recorded on one, Tuttle further investigates the layering of information with traditional printing techniques. Tuttle later decided to reuse the plate (printed upside down) for the project Nature and Media (2014), exhibited nearby.

For Sam Francis - Indoor / Outdoor

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