3 from the series 1,2,3,4
Brice Marden
American, 1938–2023
1983
A screenprint from Brice Marden’s series 1,2,3,4 that reduces painting to a single bold, calligraphic square, aiming to capture the rhythm and trace of the artist’s gesture.
You first notice a heavy, brushlike black band forming an imperfect square against a muted gray ground—its ragged edges and streaky brushmarks insist on the physical action that made it while narrow pale margins frame the sheet.
The work fuses minimalist structure with gestural, calligraphic mark‑making, advancing late‑twentieth‑century abstraction by foregrounding process, repetition, and the translation of painterly gesture into print.
Medium
One from a series of four screenprints
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 32 13/16 × 29 5/8" (83.3 × 75.2 cm); sheet (irreg.): 38 3/16 × 29 5/8" (97 × 75.2 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Barbara Pine (through the Associates of the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books)
Accession
621.1983.3
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