Greg Burnet

Australian, born 1953

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Printed with tones of black, gray, and smoky gray, two oversized hands reach out of an ocean and hold up a masted ship in this horizontal etching, aquatint, and drypoint. Closer to us, the black silhouette of a woman sinks under the surface of the water, face down with her arms thrust back and her mouth gaping open. Her features are exaggeratedly rounded to reference stereotypes historically connected with Black and African people. The wave surges to our left, and the giant hands lift the boat just left of center of the composition. Small in scale, two silhouetted people stand on a flat area to the left. One wears a brimmed, flat-topped hat, a coat with tails, and holds up a tool, perhaps a hoe. The other wears a spiky headdress and skirt and holds up a stalk of sugar cane. The sky is pale gray to either side of a plume of white and a black void with jagged edges, which spreads like a seeping stain down the middle of the sky. Under the image and across the bottom of the page, the artist wrote “A.P. VI/VIII” to the left and “KW 2010” to the right lightly in graphite.
Kara Walker, Greg Burnet, Burnet Editions Master Printers, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., no world, 2010, color etching, drypoint, and aquatint with sugarlift and spitbite on Hahnemühle Copperplate wove paper, Donald and Nancy de Laski Fund, 2015.42.1

no world

Kara Walker, Greg Burnet, Burnet Editions Master Printers, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. · 2010 · color etching, drypoint, and aquatint with sugarlift and spitbite on Hahnemühle Copperplate wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.42.1

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Untitled

Julie Roberts, Sean Kelly Gallery, Greg Burnet · 2006 · etching and aquatint in black on Somerset Textured paper ·  Accession ID  2009.131.8.5

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Untitled

Julie Roberts, Sean Kelly Gallery, Greg Burnet · 2006 · etching and aquatint in black on Somerset Textured paper ·  Accession ID  2009.131.8.2

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Untitled

Julie Roberts, Sean Kelly Gallery, Greg Burnet · 2006 · etching and aquatint in black on Somerset Textured paper ·  Accession ID  2009.131.8.3

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Untitled

Julie Roberts, Sean Kelly Gallery, Greg Burnet · 2006 · etching and aquatint in black on Somerset Textured paper ·  Accession ID  2009.131.8.4

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Title Page

Julie Roberts, Sean Kelly Gallery, Greg Burnet · 2006 · etching and aquatint in black on Somerset Textured paper ·  Accession ID  2009.131.8.1

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Sickert's Shadow

Julie Roberts, Sean Kelly Gallery, Greg Burnet · 2006 · portfolio of five etchings in black on Somerset Textured paper ·  Accession ID  2009.131.8.1-5

Julie Mehretu, Parkett Editions, Burnet Editions Master Printers, Greg Burnet, Kindle (for Parkett no. 76), 2006, etching, engraving, and drypoint on Somerset paper, Gift of Neal T. Turtell and Thomas G. Klarner, 2022.35.28

Kindle (for Parkett no. 76)

Julie Mehretu, Parkett Editions, Burnet Editions Master Printers, Greg Burnet · 2006 · etching, engraving, and drypoint on Somerset paper ·  Accession ID  2022.35.28

Sean Scully, Greg Burnet, Colmena [Beehive], 2003, color etching with aquatint, sugarlift and spitbite accompanying a poem in letterpress on Somerset White paper, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2006.149.1.8

Colmena [Beehive]

Sean Scully, Greg Burnet · 2003 · color etching with aquatint, sugarlift and spitbite accompanying a poem in letterpress on Somerset White paper ·  Accession ID  2006.149.1.8

Sean Scully, Greg Burnet, El diamante [Diamond], 2003, color etching with aquatint, sugarlift and spitbite accompanying a poem in letterpress on Somerset White paper, Gift of the Collectors Committee, 2006.149.1.10

El diamante [Diamond]

Sean Scully, Greg Burnet · 2003 · color etching with aquatint, sugarlift and spitbite accompanying a poem in letterpress on Somerset White paper ·  Accession ID  2006.149.1.10