Phoenix for Gordon
Frank Boyden, Phoenix for Gordon, 2001, color lift ground etching and drypoint on paper, Gift of the Artist, © 2001 Frank Boyden, 2001.76
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- Title
Phoenix for Gordon
- Artist
- Related People
inspired by: Gordon W. Gilkey (American, 1912-2000)
print publisher: Frank Boyden (American, born 1942)
printer: Frank Boyden (American, born 1942)
- Date
2001
- Medium
color lift ground etching and drypoint on paper
- Edition
1/60
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 14 3/4 in x 10 3/4 in; sheet: 22 1/4 in x 15 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
inscription: In graphite, below platemark, l.l., "1/60 Phoenix for Gordon"; l.l., artist's chopmark
signature/maker's mark: In graphite, below platemark, l.l., "F. Boyden"
- Collection Area
Graphic Arts; Northwest Art
- Category
Prints
- Object Type
intaglio print
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of the Artist
- Accession Number
2001.76
- Copyright
© 2001 Frank Boyden
- Terms
The Phoenix, a sacred fire-bird, is found in the mythologies of many cultures, including the Greeks. Herodotus, writing in the fifth century BCE, notes that its plumage "is partly golden and partly red. He is most like an eagle in shape and size," and that the marvelous creature lives for five hundred years, and then dies, only to be reborn from its own ashes. In this way, the Phoenix has been a symbol of immortality and rebirth.
Artist Frank Boyden calls upon this long mythological tradition in his tribute to Gordon Gilkey (1912-2000), an indefatigable collector and professor, and the much beloved first curator of graphic arts at the Portland Art Museum.
- Exhibitions
2012 Mythologia: Gods, Heroes, and Monsters Portland Art Museum
