Fruit Juice Bottles II, State 2
1990
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View on museum website →Medium
color aquatint and spitbite aquatint on Somerset Textured paper
Dimensions
sheet: 48.6 x 49.5 cm (19 1/8 x 19 1/2 in.) image: 33 x 38.1 cm (13 x 15 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
1998.40.117
Art Historical Context
**Fruit Juice Bottles II, 2** is a vibrant 1990 color aquatint print by British artist Tony Cragg, capturing his fascination with everyday objects transformed into dynamic, organic forms. Cragg, renowned for his sculptures that explore the interplay between the natural and industrial worlds, here translates that sensibility into two dimensions. This "State 2" edition—referring to an intermediate proof in the printmaking process—hints at Cragg's experimental approach, refining compositions through multiple iterations. Housed in the National Gallery of Art as a gift from pioneering print publish...
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...