Second Sails [10] from Second Sails
1978
Image not available — this artwork is under copyright
View on museum website →Medium
one from a portfolio of eight hardground etchings on wove Arches paper
Dimensions
image: 10.2 x 15.2 cm (4 x 6 in.) sheet: 28.6 x 38.1 cm (11 1/4 x 15 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
1997.8.53.7
Art Historical Context
Dan Flavin's *Second Sails [10*, created in 1978, is one of eight hardgroundings from the portfolio *Second Sails*. Renowned for his pioneering minimalist sculptures using fluorescent light tubes, Flavin ventured into printmaking during the late 1970s, translating his interest in light, space, and geometry into intimate two-dimensional works. This piece, housed in the National Gallery of Art as a generous gift from Kathan Brown, exemplifies his precise, industrial aesthetic adapted to paper. Printed on fine wove Arches paper the etching employs a traditional hardground technique, where a prot...
About the Artist
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin (1933–1996) was an American minimalist artist known exclusively for his sculptures and installations made from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. Born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, he studied art history at Columbia University and attended the Hans Hofmann School before beginning his artistic career in the early 1960s. Flavin's breakthrough came in 1963 with "the diagon...