Sky Frame Orbit
Helen Frankenthaler
1964–1973
- Medium
- Color lithograph from one stone and color aquatint and etching from one plate on pinkish cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 41.4 × 23 cm (16 5/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Overall image: 52.5 × 39 cm (20 11/16 × 15 3/8 in.); Sheet: 76 × 57 cm (29 15/16 × 22 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- aquatint
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
aquatintprintprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
Sky Frame Orbit was only the second time Frankenthaler combined printing techniques (the first was Free Wheeling). The artist repurposed the trial proofs printed nine years earlier of Sky Frame’s blue lithographed frame, rotated them ninety degrees, and printed the new intaglio plate in the center. Frankenthaler had reworked the Sky Frame stone after these initial proofs were pulled, which is why Sky Frame Orbit’s edition size is small: the blue rectangle could not be reproduced in 1973.
