Summertime in Italy (with Lines)
Artist
Robert Motherwell
American, 1915 - 1991
Printer
Irwin Hollander
American, born 1927
Date1966
MediumColor lithograph on Rives BKF paper
DimensionsSheet: 22 1/4 x 16 7/8 in. (56.5 x 42.9 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 29 3/8 × 24 × 1 in. (74.6 × 61 × 2.5 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 29 3/8 × 24 × 1 in. (74.6 × 61 × 2.5 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineDonated by Stephen J. Sills, M.D. in loving memory of his wife Nancy Mintz Sills.
Object number2008.3.10
On View
Not on viewCollections
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Works on Paper
SignedSigned in pencil lower right: "R Motherwell"
InscribedLL in pencil, edition numbered: "28/100"
MarkingsPrinter's chop mark LR, above and to the right of the artist's signature an embossed cypher: "IH" in a box representing printer and publisher Irwin Hollander.
Watermark in LR of paper "RIVES"
DescriptionBlack lines forming an open triangle that is sculptural in design with the three sides being triangular in section.A light blue ground indented in five places and having black dots at each of these indents, as if pinned up or held in place by these points. Enclosed by a reddish-brown line.
The sheet is float mounted on a reddish-brown mat that is similar in color to the printed lines enclosing the central design. Modern low ogee-molded gilt frame with reddish undertones.
Exhibition History"What's New? Recent Acquisitions 2008-2010", Hoopes Gallery, The Hyde Collection, March 3 - May 29, 2011.
"Elemental: Marking Their Mark", Rotunda Gallery, April 11, 2015- June 21, 2015
"The 1960s: Beyond Op and Pop," Feibes and Schmitt Gallery, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, June 24-Sept. 17, 2023.ProvenanceCollection of Sam Mintz, Great Neck, NY; Stephen and Nancy Mintz Sills, Guilderland, NY; Stephen Sills, Guilderland, NY, 2002; The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, 2008.
