Mortimer Borne
The Magicians

The Magicians
The Magicians
The Magicians
ArtistAmerican, born Poland, 1902–1987
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • The Magicians
Date1947
Printed inNew York City, New York, United States
MediumDrypoint in colors on wove paper
DimensionsPlate: 8 15/16 × 11 15/16 in. (22.7 × 30.3 cm)
Sheet: 12 1/2 × 19 in. (31.8 × 48.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Young
Object number76.226
Not on view

Explore Further

Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History“Stanley William Hayter, Master Printmaker,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 16—June 12, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, below plate, bottom left: The Magicians #7
Recto: Signed in graphite, below plate, bottom right: Mortimer Borne Imp
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, center bottom edge: 9x12
Recto: Signed in graphite, below plate, bottom right: Mortimer Borne Imp
Recto: Watermark, right bottom edge: RIVES

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

The Farmer and His Wife
Mortimer Borne
1941
Drypoint
76.224
Rainy Night
Mortimer Borne
1939
Drypoint
76.225
R in Pensive Mood
Mortimer Borne
1943
Drypoint
76.227
José Luis Cuevas
1971
Lithograph in colors and collage, edition 63/100
93.426.4.A-.F
Graceland Mansion
Jennifer Bartlett
1979
Drypoint in colors; etching and aquatint in colors; screenprint in colors; woodcut in colors; and lithograph in colors on wove paper, artist's proof IV
2001.624.A-.E
James Turrell
c. 1988
Aquatint, photoetching, etching, soft ground etching, and drypoint in colors [left]; Aquatint, photoetching, soft ground etching and etching in colors on wove paper [right], working proof
96.470
Image received from curatorial
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
Winter Speaks
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
Home
Kiki Smith
2006
Spit bite in colors, aquatint with flat bite, hard ground and soft ground etching, and drypoint, printed chine collé on Gampi paper, on wove paper, edition 8/20
2017.136
Gli Alberi che nel Corpo Nascono (Trees that Spring from the Body Itself)
Mimmo Paladino
1990
Screenprint in colors, woodcut, carborundum, drypoint, printed chine collé, and gauze on wove paper, edition 2/50
96.989
Gli Uccelli di Notte (The Night Birds)
Mimmo Paladino
1990
Screenprint in colors, woodcut, carborundum, drypoint, printed chine collé, etching, aquatint, and gauze on wove paper, edition 2/50
96.987
Convertible
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
2019
Spitbite aquatint in colors and aquatint with drypoint on wove paper, edition 6/35
2020.145