Banner image: Detail, Mamma Andersson, Room Under the Influence, 2008, color spitbite aquatint, sugarlift aquatint, aquatint, and softground etching, Gift of Kathan Brown, Crown Point Press, © Mamma Andersson
Robert Bechtle
Because reversal is inherent to the etching process, Bechtle’s print is a mirror image of the lift (preparatory) drawing. In the drawing’s lower margin, Bechtle wrote, “This is not a finished work of Art!” Indeed, the drawing was no more than a tool for him. Laid on top of the various copperplates, it facilitated the tracing of the print’s design and the mapping out of its colors.
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Robert Bechtle working at Crown Point Press, photograph by Kathan Brown, Courtesy Crown Point Press
"Yes, No, Maybe: The Art of Making
Decisions," lecture by exhibition curators Judith Brodie and Adam Greenhalgh (audio)
Julie Mehretu, artist, in conversation with curator Judith Brodie, Diamonstein-Spielvogel lecture (audio)
"An Insider's Perspective," lecture by Kathan Brown, founder of Crown Point Press (audio)
Exhibition tour by curators Judith Brodie and Adam Greenhalgh (audio)