Object number1991.22.14

Untitled, from The Atelier Project 1983-1986

Date1986

Artist Katherine Porter (American, 1941-2024)

CultureAmerican

MediumWoodcut on Arches cover paper

EditionEdition 3 of 85

DimensionsSheet: 30 x 22 3/8 in. (76.2 x 56.83 cm)

Credit LineGift of Philip and Lynn Straus, class of 1946

Period20th c

Classification(s)

SignedOn recto, signed lower left in pencil: Katherine Porter

InscribedOn recto, lower left in pencil: 3/85

MarkingsOn recto, lower left [blind stamp]: Visual Arts Division / Center for Editions / Purchase, New York / SUNY Purchase

Vassar Exhibitions

A Living Legacy: Gifts from Lynn Gross Straus

Label TextOriginally working in a minimalist mode in the 1970s, Katherine Porter developed a less restrained, more expressive manner during the 1980s. She described her own paintings at this time as “about chaos, constant changes, opposites, clashes, big movements in nature.” These same elements are present in Untitled, her first woodcut.

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