Fourteen Etchings 8
Terry Winters
American, born 1949
1989
An etching, aquatint, and photogravure from a 1989 portfolio in which Terry Winters pairs a porous, seed‑like orb with a clinical X‑ray of a joint to explore the overlap of organic form and scientific diagram.
You’re struck by the dense, polka‑dotted circular mass—like a magnified cell or seedpod—hovering above a small, ghostly photogravure of a bone, both motifs set into a wide, quiet expanse of paper so the marks read as simultaneously tactile and clinical.
By fusing hand‑drawn etching gestures with photogravure’s photographic clarity, Winters broadened late‑20th‑century printmaking and probed how abstraction and anatomical imagery can together shape how we visualize nature and knowledge.
Medium
One etching, aquatint and photogravure from a portfolio of fourteen etching and aquatints thirteen with photogravure
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 13 3/8 x 7 13/16" (34 x 19.8 cm); sheet: 18 11/16 x 14 3/16" (47.5 x 36 cm)
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Credit
Gift of Emily Fisher Landau
Accession
24.1990.8
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