Prints and Drawings

Items in this set

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  Blue Interval

  Ines Okafor · 1988

  Four blues, nested and set slightly low, so the inner square seems to rise. Okafor printed the edition in one night so that the humidity would not change the colors.
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  Interval Suite No. 4

  Ines Okafor · 1992

  A red square and a green square of equal brightness, side by side, so the border between them seems to flicker. The fourth of six prints about colors that cancel out.
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  Kitchen Chair

  Helena Strand · 1961

  A wooden chair pulled out from the table, as if someone has just stood up. Strand kept it in the studio so it could not be tidied away.
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  Seed Heads

  Nell Achterberg · 1961

  Dandelion clocks at the moment before they come apart. The soft grey is aquatint; the seeds are scratched back to bare paper.
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  Sleeping Cat

  Helena Strand · 1964

  The only animal in Strand's work: her own cat, Pim, drawn in the eleven minutes he slept on the windowsill.
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  Study for a Window

  Helena Strand · 1958

  Strand drew the same kitchen window for most of one winter. In this study the light is doing all the work; the window frame is barely there.
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  Thistle

  Nell Achterberg · 1958

  Achterberg drew every plant from life on the copper plate, without a sketch. The thistle came from the ditch behind the Grange hall.
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  Tide Line

  Mara Lind · 1983

  Lind cut these lines on her only trip to the coast, from memory, in a motel room in Astoria. Each line is a little thinner than the one above it.
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  Wild Carrot

  Nell Achterberg · 1964

  Queen Anne's lace, drawn from above so the flower becomes a map. Achterberg printed only twelve impressions before the plate wore.
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  Yellow Measure

  Ines Okafor · 1990

  Bands of yellow, each one exactly as wide as the gap above it. Okafor called these prints rulers for color.