The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 14, 2024

Untitled

Untitled

1962
(Canadian, 1943–2024)
Canada, 20th century
color monotype
Image and Sheet: 21.5 x 14.6 cm (8 7/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.158
© David Rabinowitch / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Although David Rabinowitch's monotypes formally relate to his sculptures, the artist did not conceive of the prints as studies for those works.

Description

Known primarily as a sculptor, David Rabinowitch created a series of 100 monotypes—prints that were completely unique—in 1962. The artist inked, arranged, and printed woodblocks in different configurations as an attempt to resolve questions of form and space that would define his three-dimensional work of the following decades. Rabinowitch maintained a lifelong interest in materials and allowed the wood's irregular surface to remain visible throughout some of the thickly inked prints.
  • ?-2004
    (Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH)
    2004-2020
    Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH
    March 2, 2020
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
  • {{cite web|title=Untitled|url=false|author=David Rabinowitch|year=1962|access-date=14 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.158