Untitled (May #2)

© Susan Rothenberg / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Untitled (May #2)

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Untitled (May #2),

1979

Susan Rothenberg, American, 1945–2020
Printed by Gretchen Gelb and Peter Drake at Aeropress
Published by Parasol Press, Ltd.
2004-445
From 1974 to 1979 the horse was a favorite subject of Susan Rothenberg, who assiduously explored both its symbolic associations and its formal possibilities. The artist utilized full-body as well as closely cropped and inverted views: the fi rst approach resulted in relatively recognizable subjects, the latter in evocative abstractions, as seen here. Untitled was created using an additive process: the work is made of successive layers of lines and tones rendered using a variety of printing methods. This process complicates the relationship between figure and ground, confusing both shape and depth perception.
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Online Collection Sets: Women Artists and Abstraction

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Title
Untitled (May #2)
Dates

1979

Maker
Susan Rothenberg
Printed by Gretchen Gelb and Peter Drake at Aeropress
Published by Parasol Press, Ltd.
Medium
Etching and aquatint, soft-ground, sugar lift, spit bite, scraping, burnishing, printed in 2 colors from 2 plates on Fabriano Etching paper
Dimensions
plate: 34.9 x 29.7 cm (13 3/4 x 11 11/16 in.) sheet: 75.2 x 55.7 cm (29 5/8 x 21 15/16 in.) frame: 82.5 × 62.8 × 3 cm (32 1/2 × 24 3/4 × 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Herbert Schorr, Graduate School Class of 1963, and Mrs. Schorr
Object Number
2004-445
Place Made

North America, United States, New York, New York

Inscription
Signed, numbered, titled and dated in graphite, left: S. Rothenberg A.P. IV//XII May #2 1979
Reference Numbers
Friedman and Krakow 3; Maxwell 4
Culture
American
Type
aquatints, prints
Materials
printing ink
Techniques
etching (printing process), mounting
Subject
abstraction

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