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 series in original language: 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 --- culture: Canada, 20th century technique: color monotype department: Prints collection: PR - Monotype type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * David Rabinowitch (Canadian, 1943-) - artist --- measurements: Image and Sheet: 21.4 x 14.7 cm (8 7/16 x 5 13/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed and dated, in pencil, at lower right: David Rabinowitch 1962 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection opening date: 2022-09-11T04:00:00 Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland) date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH date: ?-2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: March 2, 2020 footnotes: citations: --- 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES