id:			380073
accession number:	2020.156
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.156
updated:		2023-08-24 01:38:16.502000

Carved Woodblock Monotypes: Untitled, 1962. David Rabinowitch (Canadian, 1943-). Color monotype; image and sheet: 21.4 x 14.7 cm (8 7/16 x 5 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.156 © David Rabinowitch / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

title:				Untitled
title in original language:	
series:				Carved Woodblock Monotypes
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creation date:			1962
creation date earliest:		1962
creation date latest:		1962
current location:		
creditline:			Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
copyright:			© David Rabinowitch / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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culture:	Canada, 20th century
technique:	color monotype
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Monotype
type:		Print
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CREATORS

* David Rabinowitch (Canadian, 1943-)  - artist

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measurements: Image and Sheet: 21.4 x 14.7 cm (8 7/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed and dated, in pencil, at lower right: David Rabinowitch 1962
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection
	opening date:   2022-09-11T04:00:00
	<i>Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland)
	date: ?-?
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	Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH
	date: ?-2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: March 2, 2020
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fun fact:
Although David Rabinowitch's monotypes formally relate to his sculptures, the artist did not conceive of the prints as studies for those works.

digital description:
Known primarily as a sculptor, David Rabinowitch created a series of 100 monotypes—prints that were completely unique—in 1962. The artist inked, arranged, and printed woodblocks in different configurations as an attempt to resolve questions of form and space that would define his three-dimensional work of the following decades. Rabinowitch maintained a lifelong interest in materials and allowed the wood's irregular surface to remain visible throughout some of the thickly inked prints.

wall description:
These works belong to a series of monotypes, or unique prints, created by David Rabinowitch as he shifted his practice from painting to sculpture. Densely printed, the geometric forms seen in each seem to float on the paper’s surface. Rabinowitch intended for the series to inspire questions about the relationship between color, form, texture, and orientation. He began making monotypes after visiting the Royal Ontario Museum around 1960, where he encountered crest poles—elaborately carved totem poles made by the Nisga’a and Haida people of British Columbia. These objects led him to consider physical space in a new way. Although he later shifted to three-dimensional work, this early series inspired him for years to come.
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