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Sun Circuit by Alice Baber

Sun Circuit by Alice Baber

Sun Circuit

Alice Baber

Title

Sun Circuit

 
Artist

Alice Baber

  1928 - 1982 (biography)
Year
1967  
Technique
color lithograph 
Image Size
21 1/2 x 17 7/8" image and paper size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
71 of 80  
Annotations
pencil editioned beneath signature; numerous annotations on verso: red-yellow-blue, etc. 
Reference
MoMA accession number 1343.1968 
Paper
ivory wove Arches 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
0078 
Price
SOLD
Description

Composed of undulating, organic shapes, Alice Baber’s abstract compositions vibrate with color. To achieve this luminous effect in her paintings, she applied transparent layers of diluted oil paint to her primed canvases, a time-consuming process that often required further thinning with a turpentine-soaked rag, a method she adapted to create the litho stone.

While Baber used a variety of abstract forms in her work, she preferred elongated circles, as she believed they imparted the greatest sense of motion across the composition.