The History of Printmaking: S.W. Hayter Discovers Viscosity Printing (large plate)
Warrington Colescott, The History of Printmaking: S.W. Hayter Discovers Viscosity Printing (large plate), 1976, soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils, printed in color on cream Arches paper, Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund, © Warrington Colescott, 80.47.1h
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- Title
The History of Printmaking: S.W. Hayter Discovers Viscosity Printing (large plate)
- Related Titles
original language: The History of Printmaking: S.W. Hayter Discovers Viscosity Printing
series (original language): The History of Printmaking
- Artist
- Related People
subject: Stanley William Hayter (English, active France and United States, 1901-1988)
- Date
1976
- Medium
soft-ground etching and aquatint, with vibrograver, and relief rolls through stencils, printed in color on cream Arches paper
- Edition
57/75
- Catalogue Raisonné
Chapin 221
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
plate: 21 7/8 in x 27 5/8 in; sheet: 24 7/8 in x 35 5/8 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
watermark: Arches France, watermark, lower left
signature; date: Warrington Colescott 1976, graphite, lower right
title: History of Printmaking: SW Hayter Discovers Viscosity Printing, graphite, lower center
edition: 57/75, graphite, lower left
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
intaglio print
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Museum Purchase: Caroline Ladd Pratt Fund
- Accession Number
80.47.1h
- Copyright
© Warrington Colescott
- Terms
Warrington Colescott's younger brother, Robert Colescott (1925–2009), was also an artist. Both men employed satire, appropriation, and humor to make their artistic point, often surrounding the theme of the artist at work. In this etching, Warrington imagines the precise moment when S.W. Hayter and his colleagues discover viscosity printing, a complicated method of adding color to an intaglio plate based on the relative viscosity of the inks.
Robert's mordant painting, Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder, also examines an artist in his studio; it can be found in the west stairwell leading to the Hoffman lobby of this building.
- Exhibitions
2013 In the Studio: Reflections on Artistic Life Portland Art Museum
