Willem de Kooning & Joan Mitchell "Editions"
RYAN LEE
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Mary Ryan Gallery announces an exhibition of prints by Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) and Joan Mitchell (1926-1992). The exhibition will focus on a selection of prints by two of the preeminent Abstract Expressionist painters.
Although Willem de Kooning explored print making at different points throughout his career, the period between 1970 and 1971 was his most productive. After a trip to Japan where de Kooning was exposed to Sumi brush painting (traditional Japanese ink and wash painting done with various concentrations of black ink) and calligraphy, he made a series of lithographs at the Hollander Workshop in New York.
Joan Mitchell, while having expolored printmaking throughout her four-decade career ultimately made relatively few prints. This exhibition includes a selection of prints from the Sunflowers Series (1972), the Bedford Series (1981), and the last prints she made in 1992. The works from 1981 and 1992, all of which she collaborated on with master printer Kenneth Tyler, are some of her largest and most celebrated lithographs. Like most of her work, these prints are landscape-based, including the monumental diptychs Sunflowers IV and Trees I (both 1992).
[Image: Left: Willem de Kooning 1971 "Landscape at Stanton Street" Lithograph 30 x 22 in. Right: Joan Mitchell 1981 "Sides of a River" 6 color Lithograph 42 1/2 x 32 1/2 in.]
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from January 06, 2011 to February 12, 2011