Arrival
date: label: date made
content: 1950
label: date made
content: 1951
name: label: maker
content: Citron, Minna
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Minna Citron (1896-1991) was an American printmaker, whose style dramatically transformed from representational to abstract art in the 1940s. She became a member of Atelier 17, a renowned avant-garde print studio in New York, and was known for her experimental printmaking techniques. "Arrival," was an etching, printed in 1951 as part of Citron’s series called "The Uncharted Course," which she created over a period of six years. Through this series she explored the relationship between spontaneity and control in printmaking. Her printing plate accidently broke while working on her two other prints, “Jet” and “Descendo,” so she took the opportunity to experiment with printing on the backside of the printing plate, resulting in “Arrival.” Rather than allowing technical slip-ups to deter her process, she found inspiration in the accidental forms they produced and embraced the inherent mishaps of printmaking.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York, New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.21152
label: catalog number
content: 21152
label: accession number
content: 240678
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Object Name
content: print
label: Other Terms
content: Print; Intaglio
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper, ink (overall materials)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 68 cm x 51.5 cm; 26 25/32 in x 20 9/32 in