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Nancy GravesCalibrate1981
1981
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Nancy Graves
Calibrate, 1981
16 color etching, aquatint, engraving and lithograph. Printed from 5 copper plates, 1 zinc plate and 1 stone
Hand signed, numbered, dated on the front
Frame Included
This dazzling 16 color etching, aquatint, engraving and lithograph printed from 5 copper plates, 1 zinc plate and 1 stone is by Nancy Graves - the first woman ever to have a retrospective at the Whitney Museum. It is in framed in the original handmade vintage wood frame.
Measurements:
frame:
31 3/4 x 34 3/4 x 0.5 inch
sheet:
29 1/4 x 32 3/4 inches
Catalogue Raisonne References: Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print
Tyler Graphics Catalogue Raisonne 1974-1985 (110NG9), p. 140-141 (full page illustration)
Nancy Graves (1938-1995), an accomplished and inventive sculptor and printmaker who was once married to Richard Serra, whom she met at Yale School of Art. She later died of breast cancer at the young age of only 58, but not before finding a more fulfilling relationship after her marriage to Serra. Nancy Graves was the first woman to be awarded a solo retrospective at the Whitney Museum.
- Creator:Nancy Graves (1940-1995, American)
- Creation Year:1981
- Dimensions:Height: 32.75 in (83.19 cm)Width: 34.75 in (88.27 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745212685932
Nancy Graves
A sculptor of animals and American Indian shamanistic objects, filmmaker, and painter, Nancy Graves had a highly successful and varied career, primarily in New York City. In her abstract work, she united her interest in anthropology, totemic objects, cartography, and biomorphic shapes. She was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and became a graduate of Vassar College in 1961 and then Yale University's School of Art and Architecture. Graves won a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship for painting, allowing her to spend a year in Paris in 1964-65. In the next few years, she traveled in North Africa and the Near East and lived and worked in Florence, Italy where she did her first signature work, which was sculptures of life-size Bactrian camels.
In 1966, she moved to New York City and further experimented with ways to produced these sculptures by building wood and steel armatures, covering them with skins of animal embryos, stuffing the skins with polyurethane to form humps, and tinting the skins with oil paints.
In 1968, she had her first New York one-woman show at the Graham Gallery followed by her second one-woman show at the Whitney Museum in 1969. Both exhibitions featured her camels.
In 1972 at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, she made sculpture suggestive of Indian objects such as bones, skins, and feathers and added also steel rods to this motif for other exhibitions.
As a filmmaker, she has had showings in film festivals in London, New York, and Boston. Source: Charlotte Rubinstein, "American Women Artists"
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