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2003
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View on museum website →Medium
color etching with aquatint, sugarlift and spitbite accompanying a poem in letterpress on Somerset White paper
Dimensions
plate: 22.5 x 17.8 cm (8 7/8 x 7 in.) sheet: 45.7 x 71.1 cm (18 x 28 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Collectors Committee
Accession Number
2006.149.1.4
About the Artist
Sean Scully
Sean Scully (born 30 June 1945, Dublin) is one of the foremost abstract painters of his generation, celebrated for large-scale canvases of interlocking vertical and horizontal bands that transform geometric structure into something emotionally and spiritually resonant. Raised in London, he attended evening classes at the Central School of Art between 1962 and 1965 before enrolling full-time at Cro...