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Katja Oxman

An Open Window, 1992

Recent Acquisition

Description

Maker

  • Katja Oxman, b. 1942, American (b. Germany)

Title

An Open Window

Year

1992

Medium

Color etching and aquatint on wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 61 x 61 cm (24 x 24 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed, in graphtie, at LL: "An Open Window"; at LC: "64/125".
Signed and dated, at LR, in graphite: "1992 Katja."
On verso, at UL corner, in graphite: (A) / 1853 [illeg.] / Oxman.

Identification

Edition

62/125

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

2016.42

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Visions and Revisions

February 15 - August 4, 2019

A group of objects is arranged on an Islamic rug. Works of Asian art—a bowl, a coin, a reproduction of a Japanese screen—mix with postcards of Western works by Albrecht Dürer and Mark Rothko and with feathers, stamps, and an admission button from the Metropolitan Museum. This print is a meditation on the history of art.

Concerned with color relationships and arrangement, Oxman composes what she calls visual poems, which, while evocative, have no particular meaning. Pushing color aquatint to new levels of complexity, she created this image by printing three plates in registration: dark blue, red, and yellow. No black ink was used. The range of hues is the result of the blending of the three inks in different degrees of saturation.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is An Open Window with the accession number of 2016.42. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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