Untitled from E. G., A.....

Jesse Reichek

1966

A 1966 lithograph in which Jesse Reichek covers the sheet with a velvety black field interrupted by faint, mirrored sinuous lines that suggest organic contours and demand close looking.

At first the work reads as an almost uniform dark plane, but leaning in reveals delicate, pale curving lines—like ghostly topography or clasped forms—tracing a subtle symmetrical rhythm across the paper.

The print reflects 1960s reductive abstraction and printmaking experiments that used near-monochrome surfaces and minimal gestures to foreground tone, surface, and the material presence of paper.

Palette

Art Terms

Lithography Print Abstraction Minimalism Monochrome Organic

Exhibitions

Prints of the Sixties

1973

Committed to Print

1988

Prints for Collectors

1972

American Prints from the International Program

1971