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Jennifer Bartlett

Graceland Mansion

Maker

Jennifer Bartlett (American, 1941 - 2022), designer
Prawat Laucheron, printer
Brooke Alexander Gallery, publisher
Hiroshi Kawanishi, printer
Simca Print Artists, Inc., printer
Chip Elwell (American, 1940-1986), printer
Maurice Sanchez (American, 20th century), printer
Paula Cooper Gallery (American), publisher

Title

Graceland Mansion

Year

1978-1979

Medium

  • drypoint,
  • Etching and aquatint,
  • serigraph,
  • woodcut and litograph on paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • drypoint,
  • Etching and aquatint,
  • serigraph,
  • woodcut and litograph on paper

Materials

color, aquatint

Supports

  • J. Green coldpress paper & Rives BFK paper

Dimensions

Plate: 61.3 x 303.9 cm (24 1/8 x 119 5/8 inches) sight, total composition

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

79.119

Type

  • Prints

Exhibition History

Building Blocks
Contemporay Works from the Collection
May 06, 2011 – Mar 25, 2012

Label copy

Graceland Mansion is a five-part print in which each section employs a different technique. The title refers to rock ’n’ roll icon Elvis Presley’s home in Memphis, Tennessee. The print is based on Jennifer Bartlett’s painting of the same name from 1977, which depicts five views of a simple geometric house, rotating front to

back with a shadow cast by the sun rising on the left and setting on the right. The composition takes this serial format even further by highlighting the particular qualities of each print process. A grid structure is more or less apparent in each section, and the five-color palette of blue, brown, tan, gray, and black is similarly

consistent while the central image and surface treatment shift from section to section.

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Jennifer Bartlett (American, 1941 - 2022), designer
Prawat Laucheron, printer
Brooke Alexander Gallery, publisher
Hiroshi Kawanishi, printer
Simca Print Artists, Inc., printer
Chip Elwell (American, 1940-1986), printer
Maurice Sanchez (American, 20th century), printer
Paula Cooper Gallery (American), publisher
Graceland Mansion, 1978-1979
Drypoint, etching and aquatint, serigraph, woodcut and litograph on paper
Plate: 61.3 x 303.9 cm (24 1/8 x 119 5/8 inches) sight, total composition
Mary B. Jackson Fund 79.119

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