Homage to Robert Adam State I, State II
1981
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View on museum website →Medium
color hard and softground, aquatint, spitbite aquatint and collage on Rives BFK paper
Dimensions
part of object: 11.4 x 11.4 cm (4 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.) plate: 15.2 x 14.9 cm (6 x 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 75.6 x 36.2 cm (29 3/4 x 14 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
1998.40.307
Art Historical Context
Joyce Kozloff's *Homage to Robert Adam I, State II* (1981) is a captivating print that pays tribute to the 18th-century Scottish neoclassical architect Robert Adam, renowned for his lavish, ornamental interiors blending classical motifs with playful symmetry. Created during Kozloff's immersion in the Pattern and Decoration of the 1970s and 1980s, this work reflects her fascination with historical decorative arts, transforming architectural elegance into intimate, colorful abstraction on a modest scale—each part measures just 4½ x 4½ inches, mounted on a larger 29¾ x 14¼-inch sheet of fine Rive...