id:			159828
accession number:	1997.143.2
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.143.2
updated:		2023-03-15 15:46:28.174000

Graceland Mansion, 1978–79. Jennifer Bartlett (American, 1941–2022). Aquatint; sheet: 60.9 x 60.8 cm (24 x 23 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1997.143.2

title:				Graceland Mansion
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creation date:			1978–79
creation date earliest:		1978
creation date latest:		1979
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creditline:			Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	aquatint
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Aquatint
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* Jennifer Bartlett (American, 1941–2022)  - artist

* Paula Cooper Gallery and Brooke Alexander Inc.  - published by

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measurements: Sheet: 60.9 x 60.8 cm (24 x 23 15/16 in.)
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edition of the work: 	Artist's Proof, II/VIII

support materials:

	description:	J. Green cold press wove paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	In graphite, lower left, verso: "land"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints
	opening date:   2000-09-17T00:00:00
	<i>From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 17-November 26, 2000).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 17 - November 26, 2000.  "From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg:  Recently Acquired Prints."

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PROVENANCE

	Jennifer Bartlett (the artist) [1941-]
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	(Charles M. Young Fine Prints and Drawings LLC., Portland, CT)
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: September 15, 1997
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In 1977 Bartlett executed several paintings of houses that she considered portraits of close friends. Graceland Mansion, a five-section painting, was named for Elvis Presley's legendary Memphis home because he was one of the artist's childhood idols and died in 1977 while she was working on the piece. Like the painting, the prints comprise five parts. Five different printmaking techniques---one for each print---combine to mimic a variety of historical artistic styles. Drypoint is used for a neat, pointillist pattern of dots, screenprint provides layers of solid, brightly colored dabs, and lithography yields freely executed, expressionistic marks. In the five prints, the sun goes through its daily cycle, casting its light first from the left at dawn, during the morning, then from overhead at noon, and finally from the right in the afternoon and at dusk. Meanwhile the house is rotated a quarter turn in each successive image. The shapes and directions of the shadows cast by the simple shape of the house, the saturation of color, and the optical densities of the forms all imply movement and the passage of time, a recurring theme in Bartlett's work.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Glaubinger, Jane, "Home Sweet Home", Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em>. Vol. 38 no. 07, September 1998
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: 8
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1998-07/page/8

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