
Message from Degas
<p>In 1972, Donn H. Steward saw Degas’s <em>Head of a Woman in Profile</em> at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Captivated by the artist’s use of liquid aquatint— a process where the resin is dissolved in strong alcohol—Steward set out to master the technique. Once he achieved his desired results, he suggested it to Frankenthaler as yet another medium with which to achieve her painterly concerns in print.</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1972
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 18.7 × 25 cm (7 3/8 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 53.6 × 66.2 cm (21 1/8 × 26 1/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
More
More by this artist
Altitudes
1978 · Color lithograph from two stones on reddish buff wove paper
Altitudes
1978 · Color lithograph from one stone and ink tap outs on brown wove paper
Altitudes
1978 · Lithograph from one stone in black on white wove paper
Bronze Smoke
1978 · Color lithograph from one stone on reddish buff wove paper
Bronze Smoke
1978 · Lithograph from one stone on white wove paper
Bronze Smoke
1978 · Color lithograph from three stones on brown wove paper
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Year
- 1972
- Dimensions
- Image/plate: 18.7 × 25 cm (7 3/8 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 53.6 × 66.2 cm (21 1/8 × 26 1/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1972-078749
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified





