Head Study
Artist
John Wilson, Jr.(American, 1922–2015)American, 1922–2015
CultureAmerican
Titles
- Head Study
Date2002
MediumEtching, aquatint, lift ground, spit bite, drypoint, scraping and burnishing, printed chine collé, on wove paper, edition 23/50
DimensionsPlate: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Sheet: 29 × 22 1/4 in. (73.7 × 56.5 cm)
Sheet: 29 × 22 1/4 in. (73.7 × 56.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment
Object number2025.714
Not on view
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Department
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Exhibition Historynone for these impressions
Published References none for these impressions Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Editioned in graphite, below left bottom edge of plate: 23/50
Recto: Titled in graphite, below left bottom edge of plate: Head Study
Recto: Signed and dated in graphite, below right bottom edge of plate: Wilson 02
Recto: Embossed, bottom left corner of sheet: Center Street Studios chop mark
Recto: Titled in graphite, below left bottom edge of plate: Head Study
Recto: Signed and dated in graphite, below right bottom edge of plate: Wilson 02
Recto: Embossed, bottom left corner of sheet: Center Street Studios chop mark
Watermark: Recto, lower right: BFK RIVES FRANCE ∞
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2016
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2012–2017
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2019.11
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2002
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2015.256
Kiki Smith
2006
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2017.136
Kerry James Marshall
2010
Aquatint, spit bite aquatint, and sugar-lift aquatint in colors with softground and hardground etching, scraping and burnishing, drypoint, collage and handcoloring on wove paper, artist’s proof 10/10
2017.284
Jim Hodges
2015
Etching, aquatint, sugar lift, spit bite and drypoint in colors with scraping and burnishing on wove paper and brown Gampi paper; screenprint in white ink on white Gampi paper, and hand-cut Beva film, printer’s proof 1/4
2021.502
Walton Ford
2016
Aquatint in colors, etching with hard ground, soft ground, spit bite, sugar lift, and drypoint, printed in six colors on wove paper, edition 64/65
2018.396
Claes Oldenburg
1979
Sugar lift and spitbite aquatint, soft and hard ground etching in colors, printed chine collé on beige paper, on wove paper, edition 40/50
2005.1193
Mimmo Paladino
1984–1985
Etching, spit bite etching and aquatint with roulette, printed chine collé, on wove paper, edition 35/40
2016.184
Suzanne Manns
1992
Sugar lift aquatint with open-bite, scraping, and burnishing, solvent transfer, and pastel, on wove paper printed relief in yellow
93.162
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John Baldessari
1982
Photoetching, soft ground etching, spit-bite aquatint, and sugar lift aquatint in colors, edition 9/35
96.1.9
Kara Walker
2017
Etchings with aquatint, sugar-lift, spit bite, and drypoint on wove paper, edition 12/25
2017.378.1-.3