S. W. Hayter Discovers Viscosity Printing

1976

Warrington Colescott

Associated Names
Warrington Colescott

Artist, American, 1921 - 2018

Mantegna Press

Publisher

The image features intertwining shapes and lines creating an abstract assembly. In the foreground, two large, overlapping profiles of faces. Within the abstract scene, various figures engaging in tasks resembling an art studio or printing room, with tools and equipment scattered about. The room is framed by angular and linear structures resembling a window or skylight. The composition creates a tapestry of different activities, blending into each other, evoking an industrious and creative atmosphere.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color softground etching, aquatint, engraving, and stenciled relief on Arches wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy

  • Dimensions

    plate: 55.56 × 70.17 cm (21 7/8 × 27 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 63.34 × 91.6 cm (24 15/16 × 36 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.109.23

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chapin 2010, no. 221

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C.); Bob Stana and Tom Judy, Washington, D.C., 1986; acquired 2019 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

2010

  • Chapin, Mary Weaver. The Prints of Warrington Colescott: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1948-2008. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2010, p. 216, no. 221.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Artists Proof; lower center in graphite: History of Printmaking. S. W. Hayter Discovers Viscosity Printmaking; lower right in graphite: Warrington Colescott 1976; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: dc.014

Watermarks

Arches / France [infinity symbol]

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