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Print520 Iso

Burning Elegy

 1991

Print520 Iso

lithograph on white Tyler Graphics Ltd. (TGL) handmade paper with hand coloring
52 1/2 x 63 1/4 in. (133.4 x 160.7 cm)

Signature

Signed "RM" in pencil lower left

Inscriptions

Numbered in pencil lower left; workshop chop mark lower right; workshop number "RM90-1033" in pencil reverse lower left

Edition

36

Proofs

1 archive proof
12 AP, numbered 1/12-12/12
1 CP
1 presentation proof
2 PP
1 RTP
6 TP, numbered I-VI

Publisher

Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York

Printer

Kevin Falco, assisted by Lee Funderburg; and John Hutcheson, assisted by John Fulton and Eric Ting, Tyler Graphics Ltd.

Collaborators

Papermaking by Tom Strianese, assisted by Paul Imboden, Jed Marshall, and Brian Maxwell; image stencils hand-cut by Strianese; prep work for continuous-tone lithography by Kenneth Tyler; plate preparation, processing, and proofing by Falco and Hutcheson, assisted by Funderburg and Ting; hand coloring by Falco, Michael Mueller, and Ting

Production Sequence

13 colors (including 4 pulp colors and 4 dye colors) printed in 6 steps from 4 aluminum plates: 1. TGL paper hand-colored using orange, orange-yellow, light pink, and black pulps and light yellow, medium yellow, light orange-yellow, and orange-yellow dyes applied to a white pulp base sheet; 2. yellow – plate; 3. black – plate; 4. transparent yellow – plate; 5. black – plate; 6. hand coloring with black acrylic paint

Concordance

TGL RM93

Comments

The composition of Burning Elegy is related to a series of small acrylic paintings Motherwell executed in 1971 titled Spanish Elegy with Orange. The paintings incorporate cadmium orange as an accenting tone.

Several impressions are stamped with the workshop number "RM88-1033."

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