Signed "RM" in pencil lower right

Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower right; workshop number "RM90-1038" in pencil reverse lower left

40

1 archive proof
12 AP, numbered 1/12-12/12
1 CP
2 PP
2 reference proofs
1 RTP
3 TP, numbered I-III

Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York

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

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

12 colors (including 2 pulp colors and 3 dye colors) printed in 12 steps from 11 aluminum plates: 1. medium yellow and light blue pulp colors and light yellow, medium yellow, and dark yellow dyes applied to white base sheet; 2. yellow – plate; 3. blue – plate; 4. transparent yellow (right side) – plate; 5. transparent yellow (left side) – plate; 6. medium yellow (right side) – plate; 7. medium yellow (left side) – plate; 8. transparent blue (right side) – plate; 11. medium blue (left side) – plate; 12. brown – plate

TGL RM97

Untitled (Blue and Yellow Elegy Drawing) was the maquette for this print. The drawing was executed in 1980 on Mylar film and is distinguished by transparent applications of thinned acrylic paint. The horizontal proportions of the composition recall Motherwell's mural paintings of the 1950s.