On View
Not on viewObject number2009.7
Etching One
Artist
Lee Bontecou
(American, 1931 - 2022)
Date1967
Mediumetching
Dimensionssheet: 25 3/4 × 19 1/2 in. (65.4 × 49.5 cm)
image: 17 3/4 × 11 7/8 in. (45.1 × 30.2 cm)
image: 17 3/4 × 11 7/8 in. (45.1 × 30.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Collins from the Charles and Charlotte Collins Collection
Exhibition History"A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and '70s from the Collins Collection," KIA Galleries 2&5 (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA (June 24 - August 20, 2016).
Round and Round, Ethel Denton Groos Gallery, November 4, 2017 - March 4, 2018
"Beyond the Club: Re-historicizing Women in Abstract Expressionism," Graham Gund Gallery at Kenyon College (January 19-April 18, 2019)
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).Label TextLee Bontecou was one of the few female artists working in the 1960s whose work was fully embraced by the art community. At this time, Bontecou consistently abstracted references to mechanized or organic forms, whether she worked in sculpture or on paper.
