On View
Not on viewObject number2009.47
Apollo
Artist
Robert Natkin
(American, 1930-2010)
Date1969
Mediumlithograph
Dimensionssheet: 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 61 cm)
image: 27 3/4 × 21 1/2 in. (70.5 × 54.6 cm)
mat: 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 cm)
image: 27 3/4 × 21 1/2 in. (70.5 × 54.6 cm)
mat: 40 × 30 in. (101.6 × 76.2 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).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).
Label TextIn the 1960s, Chicago artist Robert Natkin began to reduce his compositions to series of exclusively vertical elements. The simplified structure allowed him to concentrate on surface texture and the vibrating effects of contrasting colors. This print, concerned with light’s role in the perception of color, is part of an on-going series of paintings and prints named for Apollo, the Greek god of the sun.
