Fourteen Etchings 12
Terry Winters
American, born 1949
1989
A print that pairs Winters’s hand-etched, concentric-ring diagrams with a clinical photogravure of a human knee, using etching, aquatint, and photogravure to explore the overlap of abstract systems and bodily structure.
Two rectilinear images float on a broad white field: above, two stacked, tightly scored concentric spirals and crossed radial marks that read like ripples or radar; below, a small, ghostly X‑ray of a knee—their contrasting textures and precise isolation make the clinical image and the diagram feel eerily related.
Winters blurs scientific imaging and lyrical abstraction, expanding printmaking by combining photographic reproduction with tactile mark‑making to question how we represent, analyze, and connect organic forms and systems.
Medium
One etching, aquatint and photogravure from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints thirteen with photogravure
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 13 5/16 x 7 5/8" (33.8 x 19.3 cm); sheet: 18 11/16 x 14 3/16" (47.5 x 36.1 cm)
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Credit
Gift of Emily Fisher Landau
Accession
24.1990.12
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