Etched definition has been added to details of the buildings, especially in the shadowed areas.
Light drypoint hatching has been added to the sky at the upper left. The angular shadow cast by the building with the spire has been burnished away.
Several street lights have been added in the far distance, and vertical drypoint hatching has been added to the lower part of the sky. There are two variant impressions of this state.
- Catalogue Number
- E.054
- Title and Date
- 57th St, NY 1991
- Description of Featured Image
- A view from below of the upper part of a vista of skyscrapers situated on the right side of a street. Prominent in front of the buildings are street signs and street lights.
- Where Made
- Dunmoochin, Cottles Bridge
- Medium Category and Technique
- Intaglio Print: Etching and drypoint on copper
- Support
- Wove paper. Identified papers: Cream BFK Rives paper with watermark: ‘BFK RIVES / FRANCE’ with infinity symbol. Other papers mentioned in notes on this work in Amor’s intaglio record books: white and buff BFK Rives papers.
- Dimensions
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Image size: 305 x 89 mm
Matrix size: 307 x 90 mm - Artist’s Record Number
- RAE.50
- Printer(s) and Workshop(s)
- All impressions printed by Rick Amor in his Dunmoochin studio, Cottles Bridge.
- Summary Edition Information
- Eight states. No edition.
- Collections
- State Library of Victoria, Melbourne: eight state impressions, numbered 1 through 8.
- Comment
In October 1991, on his way home to Melbourne from his Visual Arts/Craft Board (Australia Council) residency in Barcelona, Amor stopped briefly in New York. This is the second of two etchings he made following his visit to Manhattan; the first was 6th Ave, NY, 1991 (cat. no. E.053). Both prints were made after sketchbook drawings, both have the same tall, pillar format, and both depict street vistas.
In 1996, Amor would spend several months in New York, based at the Australia Council’s Greene St Studio, and he subsequently produced a substantial body of work as a response to New York City, including several intaglio prints (cat. nos E.108, E.109, E.126 and E.159).
- Keywords
- Building, New York, Streetscape
- URL
- https://catalogue.rickamor.com.au/works/intaglio/57th-st-n-y/
Record last updated 15/02/2021