Beyond Eagles Mere 2
Brice Marden
American, 1938–2023
1999, published 2001
An etching and lithograph in which Brice Marden lays down looping, calligraphic lines across a dark ground to translate memory and landscape into a restrained, rhythmic abstraction.
A dense black field is pierced by writhing ribbon-like lines—white, red, yellow, and rust—that weave and overlap like a restless, maplike network within a narrow colored border.
The print synthesizes Minimalist restraint and calligraphic gesture, demonstrating how printmaking can carry painterly rhythm and helping to push late-20th-century abstraction toward a more lyrical, memory-inflected language.
Medium
Etching and lithograph
Dimensions
composition: 17 1/16 x 26 3/16" (43.4 x 66.5 cm); sheet: 22 1/16 x 30 1/8" (56 x 76.5 cm)
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Department
Credit
Roxanne H. Frank Fund
Accession
1487.2001
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