Chalices, State 2
1990
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color softground etching and aquatint on Somerset Textured paper
Dimensions
sheet: 31.1 x 33 cm (12 1/4 x 13 in.) image: 21.3 x 21.6 cm (8 3/8 x 8 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
1998.40.97
Art Historical Context
Tony Cragg's *Chalices, 2* (1990) is a captivating color print that showcases the British sculptor's mastery of form and texture in two dimensions. Created as part of a series—evident from the "State 2" designation—this softground etching and aquat on Somerset Textured paper measures a modest 31.1 x 33 cm, inviting close contemplation. Cragg, renowned for his, abstract sculptures that evoke natural processes and metamorphosis, translates these ideas into printmaking, where vessel-like "chalices" emerge as layered, tactile forms. Softground etching allows Cragg to imprint subtle textures, mimi...
About the Artist
Tony Cragg
Sir Tony Cragg (b. 1949) is a British sculptor whose career, spanning more than five decades, has traced a remarkable arc from early assemblages of found industrial materials to large-scale works of virtuosic formal invention in bronze, steel, glass, and wood. Born in Liverpool, Cragg worked as a laboratory technician for the British Rubber Producers Research Association before pursuing formal art...