Untitled | Yale University Art Gallery

1988

In this print by Louisa Chase, lines, dashes, and splotches swirl around six rectangles. In contrast to the black marks, which are gestural and dynamic, the geometric forms are colorful, controlled, and static. The apparent tensions—between spontaneity and deliberation, chaos and order—exemplify Chase’s pursuit of visual compositions that reconciled her changeable inner feelings with the more fixed elements of life. And yet, some of the rectangles in this work appear to be precariously balanced, suggesting that the seemingly objective external world might be as mutable as the subjective internal one.

Medium: Color etching
Dimensions: platemark: 15 7/8 × 19 13/16 in. (40.3 × 50.4 cm)
sheet: 22 7/16 × 25 1/2 in. (57 × 64.7 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Bruce Christopher Carr
Accession Number: 2007.51.1
Geography: Made in United States
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Diane Villani Editions, New York

Bibliography

Lisa Hodermarsky et al., On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2021), 164–65, no. 22, fig. 2

Object copyright

In Copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

etchings

Subject

Women artists

Edition

4/25

Inscriptions

Recto, LL corner in margin just below image in graphite: 4/25

Signed

Recto, LR corner in margin just below image, graphite: Louisa Chase 1988

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