Fourth Stone
Lee Bontecou
1963
- Medium
- Lithograph from one stone in black ink, with tusche and brush and black ink, on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 88.5 × 71 cm (34 7/8 × 28 in.); Sheet: 107.2 × 75.7 cm (42 1/4 × 29 13/16 in.)
- Genre
- lithograph
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)lithograph
About
For this working proof, Bontecou proposed changes directly on the paper, on top of the printed image. These changes are brushed on with tusche (lithographic ink) which, when thinned, can appear as several shades of gray. She applied the tusche so densely that the sheet is more of a drawing than a print. Bontecou later completed the design by printing a second lithographic stone on top of the first.
