Mary Hamilton, Daniel Leary

Artwork Overview

Daniel Leary, Mary Hamilton
Daniel Leary
1990
Mary Hamilton, 1990
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: lennox paper; white ground; aquatint
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 1621 x 1200 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 1800 x 1350 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 63 13/16 x 47 1/4 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 70 7/8 x 53 1/8 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Friends of the Art Museum
Accession number: 1991.0014
Not on display

If you wish to reproduce this image, please submit an image request

Images

Label texts

Archive Label 2003: Working in a larger-than-life scale for a series of portraits of his friends, including this one, Leary invites the viewer to engage with the emotional presence of the person portrayed. This work utilizes an innovative printmaking technique called white-ground aquatint, invented in the 1960s. Allowing for a freedom of brushwork that is more analogous to painting than to etching, the technique also permits the creation of greys.