Ten Days

Prints and Drawings

1971

Brice Marden
American, born 1938

This plate is one of a series of eight-from the first portfolio that Brice Marden produced-relating to sketches he made of olive trees in Greece. At the same time that the composition seems to deny space by pushing the image up to the picture plane, the shape of the paper restricts the image to a linear, geometric format. Despite the grid’s mathematical exactness, the gestural marks constituting the picture surface evince a human dimension, as well as evoking landscape elements. The segmented composition and the silver gray aquatint reference the physical environment, and man’s relationship to and interpretation of nature.

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Brice Marden
Title: Ten Days
Place: United States (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1971
Medium: Etching and aquatint in black and silver on cream wove paper
Dimensions: Image: 30.5 × 38.5 cm (12 1/16 × 15 3/16 in.); Sheet: 56.7 × 76 cm (22 3/8 × 29 15/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Lannan Foundation
Reference Number: 1997.115.5

Lewison 20e

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