Object number2022.40.2

Landscape of Man in Nuclear Age

Date1981-1983

Artist Berta Golahny (American, 1925 - 2005)

CultureAmerican

MediumCopper engraving and soft ground etching

EditionArtist proof from an edition of 24

DimensionsPlate: 27 1/2 x 17 5/8 in. (69.9 x 44.8 cm)
Sheet: 29 3/4 x 22 1/2 in. (75.6 x 57.2 cm)
Matted: 37 x 28 in. (94 x 71.1 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 in Nuclear Age" artist proof

MarkingsWatermarked left lower edge: C.M.FABRIANO-100/100 COTONE

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

Berta R. Golahny: A Retrospective, Lycoming College Art Gallery, Williamsport, PA, February 1996; Penn State Altoona Sheetz Gallery, Altoona, PA, November 1996
DescriptionA black and white work composed of swirling forms containing faces, bodies, hands and birds, with large faces at the top center and bottom center.

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