Dust
Artist
Craig Allen Subler
(American, born 1948)
Date1997
MediumColor etching and drypoint on paper
DimensionsPlate: 7 3/8 × 5 3/8 inches (18.72 × 13.64 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 11 15/16 inches (35.56 × 30.3 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 11 15/16 inches (35.56 × 30.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Print Society
Object numberF97-24/1
Signedpencil, bottom margin: Dust 2/25 C Subler
Edition/State/Proof2/25
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionUpper portion of black cypress rising left. Stone wall with four courses, right, topped by two white trees in front of yellow area, bush growing outward from third course from bottom. Between tree and wall, white area with low-rising vegetation. From mid-way to top, dark yellowish-black sky.Gallery LabelThis landscape shows Craig Subler's interest in both nature as subject and in abstraction as visual language. Subler makes wonderful use of a vertical composition using the fir tree, the cliff face and the sky to create four vertical stripes. The print reads simultaneously as an abstraction and as a representational landscape. The viewer is either suspended in space or standing on a hill looking directly across a valley into the mid-section of a rather tall tree. Dust is an excellent demonstration of the rich blacks, fine lines and soft gradations that can be achieved in the etching process.
Copyright© Craig Allen Subler
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