id: 159449 accession number: 1996.23.4 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.23.4 updated: 2022-01-04 17:21:01.327000 Five Threes: Five Threes, 1976-1977. Brice Marden (American, 1938-), Parason Press. Etching and aquatint in dark blue and black; sheet: 84 x 110.1 cm (33 1/16 x 43 3/8 in.); platemark: 53.2 x 75.8 cm (20 15/16 x 29 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund 1996.23.4 © Brice Marden / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York title: Five Threes title in original language: series: Five Threes series in original language: creation date: 1976-1977 creation date earliest: 1976 creation date latest: 1977 current location: creditline: Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund copyright: © Brice Marden / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York --- culture: America, 20th century technique: etching and aquatint in dark blue and black department: Prints collection: PR - Etching type: Portfolio find spot: catalogue raisonne: Lewison 28 (d) --- CREATORS * Brice Marden (American, 1938-) - artist * Parason Press - published by --- measurements: Sheet: 84 x 110.1 cm (33 1/16 x 43 3/8 in.); Platemark: 53.2 x 75.8 cm (20 15/16 x 29 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: 25 plus 10 artist's proofs support materials: description: bright white wove paper (Stonehenge) watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: lower left, in graphite: 1/25 ; signed, lower right, in graphite: B. Marden 76-77 ; VERSO, lower left, in graphite: P8812-233 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Contemporary Prints: Recent Acquisitions opening date: 1997-04-19T00:00:00 Contemporary Prints: Recent Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 19-July 21, 1997). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE purchased from (Matthew Marks Gallery, New York) date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Because the work he produced during the 1960s and 1970s has an underlying geometric structure, Brice Marden is sometimes labeled a Minimalist. Although his work is restrained and stays within a restricted format and range of colors, it is nonetheless expressive. As Marden has said, "I try to give the viewer something to which he will react subjectively." During the mid-1970s, Marden spent a great deal of time in Greece and was profoundly influenced by ancient Greek architecture and myth. One of the reasons for his travels, "was to study the beginnings of Western culture and where it went wrong." Concluding that the shift that occurred centuries ago from a matriarchal to a patriarchal society was at fault, he made a series of images in celebration of the Great Goddess, the preeminent deity of the ancient matriarchal culture. Associated with the celestial bodies, her phases (as maiden, woman, and crone) were thought to correspond to the moon's three phases (waxing, full, and waning). These works, closely related to a series of paintings by the artist, are from a portfolio of five prints, each composition similarly divided into three sections. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES