Description
Sky Frame Orbit was only the second time Frankenthaler combined printing techniques (the first was Free Wheeling). The artist repurposed the trial proofs printed nine years earlier of Sky Frame’s blue lithographed frame, rotated them ninety degrees, and printed the new intaglio plate in the center. Frankenthaler had reworked the Sky Frame stone after these initial proofs were pulled, which is why Sky Frame Orbit’s edition size is small: the blue rectangle could not be reproduced in 1973.
Accession Number
97645
Medium
Color lithograph from one stone and color etching and aquatint from one copper plate on pinkish cream wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 41.2 × 23 cm (16 1/4 × 9 1/16 in.); Image: 53.5 × 39 cm (21 1/8 × 15 3/8 in.); Sheet: 76 × 57 cm (29 15/16 × 22 1/2 in.)
Classification
aquatint
Credit Line
U.L.A.E. Collection acquired through a challenge grant of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dittmer; purchased with funds provided by supporters of the Department of Prints and Drawings; Centennial Endowment; Margaret Fisher Endowment Fund
