The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Drypoint - Ocean Surface - Second State
1985
(American, 1939-)
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Sheet: 60.8 x 48.1 cm (23 15/16 x 18 15/16 in.); Platemark: 19.7 x 25.1 cm (7 3/4 x 9 7/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1993.212
Location: not on view
Description
Celmin's work is obsessively detailed and meticulously crafted, revealing her devotion to the act of making art. Printmaking appealed to Celmins in part because she enjoyed practicing the same techniques that artists utilized centuries ago. She once said. "A lot of us have lost of lot of skills over the years." Working from photographs taken near her home in Venice, California, she made several graphite drawings and prints of the ocean. Celmin's choice of ocean imagery is not driven by its potential to suggest place and evoke meaning, but rather by the artistic opportunities it offers. "I like looking and describing, using images to explore the process of making."- purchased from (Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl)
- Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 229): June 27, 2011 - September 14, 2011.
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