The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of September 30, 2022

Pond Edge II

1998

Michael Mazur

(American, 1935–2009)

America, 20th century

Color etching and aquatint

Support: Rives BFK white wove paper

Sheet: 80.2 x 102 cm (31 9/16 x 40 3/16 in.)

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1999.41

Catalogue raisonné: Hansen 319

Location

not on view

Description

Influenced by Chinese landscape painting, Mazur creates beautiful veils of transparent color that are abstract but evoke the reflective qualities of water. Space is ambiguous, although there are receding and advancing passages throughout, creating the effect of looking down into a watery world.

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed in graphite, lower right in image: Mazur; verso, in graphite along bottom edge: titled, numbered 8/35, signed and dated

Exhibition history

Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 17 - November 26, 2000. "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints."

From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.41