TitleRavine
Artist
Gregory Amenoff
(American, b. 1948)
Printer
Mohammad Omar Khalil
(Sudanese, b. 1936)
Date1997
MediumEtching and spit-bite aquatint, printed in blue ink on white wove paper
DimensionsSheet size: 19 × 25 11/16 in.
Plate size: 9 13/16 × 14 13/16 in.
Image size: 9 13/16 × 14 13/16 in.
EditionA.P. 9/10
SignedSigned in graphite at LR: "Amenoff 97".
MarkingsPrinter's blindstamp at BRC.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number2001.10a
Label TextA painter and printmaker of landscape-based abstraction, Amenoff evokes a terrain of soft-contoured forms and floating elements. In his use of the spit-bite aquatint technique, involving the biting of a plate with acid applied, as is most common, with a brush, he collaborated closely with artist and master printer Mohammed Khalil, to achieve transparent and amorphous effects. With his choice of blue, Amenoff wanted to convey a sense of atmospheric haze enveloping a dream world.
