Object number2022.40.1

Landscape of Man

Date1968

Artist Berta Golahny (American, 1925 - 2005)

CultureAmerican

MediumEtching and soft ground, printed intaglio in green and black inks, in two plates

EditionEdition 9 of 20

DimensionsPlate: 33 3/4 x 18 in. (85.7 x 45.7 cm)
Sheet: 39 3/4 x 23 5/8 in. (101 x 60 cm)

Credit LineGift from the estate of Berta Golahny in honor of Alicia Craig Faxon, class of 1952

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

SignedOn recto, signed lower right margin in pencil: Berta R. Golahny

InscribedOn recto, by artist, lower right margin in pencil: [signature] imp.; lower left margin: "Landscape of Man" ed: 20 no. 9

BibliographyGolahny, Amy and Emily Kopley. Berta Golahny: The Human Abstract (Williamsport, PA: Lycoming College Art Gallery, 2018). MacGibeny, Abigael. "States of Being: Berta R. Golahny's Landscape of Man," Woman's Art Journal (Fall/Winter 2018): 22-33. ProvenanceEstate of Berta Golahny
Exhibition HistoryThe Boston Printmakers 20th Annual Print Exhibition, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA, March 5 - 31, 1968;

Fifteen Years of Printmaking: A Selection from 1968 to 1983, Harvard Law School Langdell Art Gallery, Boston, MA, 1983;

Berta Golahny: A Singular Vision, Foxdale Community Gallery, State College, PA, January - March 2013;

Berta Golahny: The Human Abstract, Lycoming College Art Gallery, Williamsport, PA, February 2 - March 24, 2018

DescriptionA green and black work composed of several faces and body parts, with large faces at the top and bottom of the composition and a vertical path of faces in the center flanked by curved forms at left and right containing faces and partial bodies. A visual break occurs in the lower half of the composition where a line of negative space sits between the first plate and the second.

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