NY Series (Etchings) Primrose Yellow
Marina Adams
American, born 1960
2022
A luminous aquatint in which Marina Adams distills a single biomorphic, vase‑like silhouette into a wash of primrose yellow, testing how a printed image can read like a brushstroke.
You’re struck by a large soft-edged yellow form—part hourglass, part vessel—seeming to float on a wide cream field, its subtle internal shifts of tone suggesting wet pigment spreading across the plate.
By reducing form and color to a single expressive mark, Adams connects modernist reduction and gestural painting to contemporary printmaking, demonstrating how aquatint can feel immediate and painterly while remaining a reproducible medium.
Medium
Aquatint
Dimensions
plate: 12 × 12" (30.5 × 30.5 cm); sheet: 16 × 16" (40.6 × 40.6 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Acquired through the generosity of Mary M. and Sash A. Spencer
Accession
15.2023
Palette
Exhibitions
