Untitled

This is a 15 color screen print on Arches paper, commissioned in 1980 by Lincoln Center to commemorate its 10th Annual Community Festival. The signed and numbered edition of 144 was printed at Fine Creations. The image is a colorful, abstract design of mark making inside each of the four squares.

Born in 1940, Pittsfield, MA, Nancy Graves explored the interplay between the replication of nature and the formal values of abstract art in her wide variety of works throughout her life. Thought she first gained attention with her realistic, life-sized camel sculptures, she was later inspired to draw, paint and print by visual representations of natural phenomena, like weather and moon maps. In the 1980s, she translated these flat works into three-dimensional drawings. Painted with colorful patinas that reflected the brilliant tones of her paintings, watercolors and prints, these abstract structures were associated with the real world by the found objects and casts of natural and man-made forms.
 
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY