Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery

Cat. No. 925.2/I

Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery

State/Variant:
Version 2 of 2, state I of IX
Date:
2002
Themes
Nature, Words
Techniques
Drypoint, Engraving
Support:
Smooth, wove paper
Dimensions:
plate: 21 15/16 x 26" (55.7 x 66 cm); sheet: 26 3/16 x 30 1/8" (66.5 x 76.5 cm)
Signature:
Not signed
Publisher
unpublished
Printer
Harlan & Weaver
Edition:
1 known impression of version 2, state I
Edition Information:
Proof before the editioning of version 2, state IX.
Impression:
Not numbered
Background:
Louise Bourgeois, her husband Robert Goldwater, and their son Michel Bourgeois are all buried in Cutchogue Cemetery, Cutchogue, New York. This composition was initially developed as a benefit for The Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery Association, but the benefit did not come to fruition.
Curatorial Remarks:
It is conceivable that there were one or more states of version 2 prior to this one, as this state includes evidence of several lines that have been burnished away. However, no known impressions of earlier states exist.
Description:
Drypoint and engraving, with pencil, black and red ink, blue and red crayon, red and pink watercolor and white correction fluid additions
Inscription:
Verso: " Mr. BeeBe Suffolk County / newsletter / __________ / Leslie Miller printer and/ Graphic Designer. 29th Street between 6 +7 ave" center sheet, pencil, artist's hand.
State Changes and Additions:
Matrices:
The progression of this version 2, as seen in the Evolving Composition Diagram below, involved 3 plates.

Plate 1: overall composition, printed in black.
Plate 2: hatching in trees, printed in red.
Plate 3: shading along left, upper, and right contours of plate, printed in blue.

State Changes:
Plate 1, printed in black.
Changes from version 1: composition reconfigured and transferred to larger plate, in drypoint.
MoMA Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
MoMA Accession Number:
1563.2008
© The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY

Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery

c. 1999-2004

First Version
Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery
Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery
Studies
Untitled (Study for Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery)
Untitled (Study for Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery)
Second Version
Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery
Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery
Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery
Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery
Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery
Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery
Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery
Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery
Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery
Friends of Cutchogue Cemetery

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