May 26 Backwards
<p>In 1961 Frankenthaler was only beginning to understand the finer points of printmaking. The most essential of these is that printing reverses the image set on the stone. The title of this print, <em>May 26 Backwards</em>, is a playful acknowledgement that while the artist wrote the numbers in mirror image to compensate for the printing process, she neglected to invert the digits. As a result, <em>26</em> appears as <em>62</em> in the final print.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1961
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 78.8 × 56.2 cm (31 1/16 × 22 3/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
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Record
Verified by Watts Index- Year
- 1961
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 78.8 × 56.2 cm (31 1/16 × 22 3/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1961-078443
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified