(to Don Judd, colorist) 4
started 1986, published 1987
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lithograph in orange on gray John Koller HMP handmade paper
Dimensions
sheet: 72.4 x 101.7 cm (28 1/2 x 40 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist
Accession Number
1990.27.6
Art Historical Context
**Dan Flavin's *(to Don Judd, color) 4*** Dan Flavin, a pioneering minimalist artist renowned for his immersive fluorescent light installations, ventured into printmaking with this striking 1986 lithograph, published in 1987. The title pays homage to fellow minimalist Donald Judd, playfully dubbing him a "colorist"—a to Judd's precise geometric forms and Flavin's own mastery of colored light. Created in collaboration with the esteemed Gemini G.E.L. workshop in Los Angeles, this work exemplifies how print editions allowed conceptual artists like Flavin to democratize their ideas beyond monum...
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...