Message from Degas
Helen Frankenthaler
1972–1974
- Medium
- Color etching and aquatint from three copper plates on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 18.5 × 24.6 cm (7 5/16 × 9 11/16 in.); Sheet: 35.1 × 43.5 cm (13 7/8 × 17 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- aquatint
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printingaquatintprintprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
In 1972, Donn H. Steward saw Degas’s Head of a Woman in Profile at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Captivated by the artist’s use of liquid aquatint— a process where the resin is dissolved in strong alcohol—Steward set out to master the technique. Once he achieved his desired results, he suggested it to Frankenthaler as yet another medium with which to achieve her painterly concerns in print.
