- Gallery Text
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“I was making these paintings on canvas board. Fields behind and marks all over. The previous drawings had gone darker and darker and I was stuck. And then what happened is I got invited at a printshop in Philadelphia, Brandywine workshop, and I started working in mylar. The mylar was transparent paper, it was like working on plastic: all of a sudden, the field was gone. There were just the marks, and it was very fast because of the ink, moving very smoothly over the plastic. So . . . I started making these com-positions with big shapes. And then that led to new paintings. It was a combination of the mylar and the mark making.”
—Stanley Whitney, quoted in an unpublished 2018 interview with Grégoire Lubineau
- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 2018.33.57
- People
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Stanley Whitney, American (Philadelphia, PA born 1946)
- Title
- Untitled #1
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1979
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/361210
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3500, Special Exhibitions Gallery
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- Medium
- Screenprint
- Technique
- Screen print
- Dimensions
- 63.5 × 93.3 cm (25 × 36 3/4 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: l.r., in graphite: Stanley Whitney 1979
- Provenance
- Stanley Whitney, created 1979; [Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA], sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2018.
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Edition
- 22/35
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
- Copyright
- © Stanley Whitney
- Accession Year
- 2018
- Object Number
- 2018.33.57
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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- Exhibition History
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