Cloud-Making Machine
1967
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etching and aquatint
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.325
Art Historical Context
Colin Connor's *Cloud-Making Machine* (1967) is a whimsical etching and aquatint print in the National Gallery of's Rosenwald Collection, renowned assemblage of fine prints that highlights the medium's artistic potential. Created during the innovative 1960s—a decade buzzing with technological optimism and imaginative experimentation—the title alone evokes a fantastical device blending machinery with the ethereal, sparking curiosity about humanity's playful interface with nature. Etching involves drawing lines into a metal plate coated with acid-resistant ground, allowing acid to bite delicate...