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Vija Celmins, designer

Untitled (Desert), 1971

Description

Maker

  • Cirrus Editions, publisher
  • Vija Celmins, b. 1939, American, designer

Title

Untitled (Desert)

Year

1971

Medium

Lithograph on Arches paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • lithograph

Supports

  • Medium weight cream Arches wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 53.7 x 70.2 cm (21 1/8 x 27 5/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Recto:numbered in pencil in LL:60/65; signed and dated in LR:V. Celmins' 71Verso:in pencil in LL:38C - VC71

Identification

Edition

60/65

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum purchase with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts

Object Number

73.101

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Primacy of Paper

January 15 - June 20, 2010

In the early 1970s, Celmins began creating highly detailed images of small patches of a rock-strewn desert floor. These joined a repertoire of subjects from the natural world which remain central to her work to this day, including ocean waves, clouds, the night sky, and the surface of the moon. Based on black-and-white photographs, these pencil drawings and lithographs emphasize both the individuality of each closely scrutinized bit of terrain, seen in the unique shapes of each rock and shadow, as well as a vast abstract pattern of texture, stretching beyond the page in every direction.

A Special Genius

September 1 - October 3, 1976

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 Untitled (Desert) with the accession number of 73.101. 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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