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Diffraction, 2005

Not on View

Medium

color sugarlift aquatint with aquatint, spitbite aquatint and etching on Gampi paper chine collé mounted to wove Somerset paper

Dimensions

plate: 70.49 × 100.97 cm (27 3/4 × 39 3/4 in.)

sheet: 90.81 × 118.75 cm (35 3/4 × 46 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

2011.119.54

Artists / Makers

Julie Mehretu (artist) American, born Ethiopia, 1970

Dena Schuckit (printer) American, active late 20th century

Catherine Brooks (technical collaborator) American, active early 21st century

Emily York (technical collaborator) American, active early 21st century

Image Use

lower left in graphite: O.K.T.P.; lower right in graphite: Mehretu: 2005; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: Mehretu: Diffraction OKTP

Kathan Brown, San Francisco; gift to NGA, 2011

Brown, Kathan

National Gallery of Art