Loop
Martin Puryear
2002
- Medium
- Soft ground etching, with drypoint on cream Japanese paper, laid down on white wove paper (chine collé)
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 21.2 × 17.5 cm (8 3/8 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 42 × 35 cm (16 9/16 × 13 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- prints and drawing
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
japanese paperink21st Centuryprintprints and drawingpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
As seen with this print as well as the earlier Gate, Puryear has a special ability to produce small works that reveal no shortage of power or completeness despite their scale. Indeed, Loop is one of the artist’s favorite prints, possibly due to its daring succinctness.
