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Untitled (Ocean)

Date
1972
Material
Lithograph
Classification
Prints
Current Location
Not on view
Dimensions
28 1/2 in. × 46 in. (72.4 × 116.8 cm)
framed: 28 × 46 in. (71.1 × 116.8 cm)
Credit Line
Museum Purchase
Rights
© Vija Celmins
Object Number
509:1978
NOTES
Celmins remarked about her ocean woodcuts: “I loved doing it. I mean, my work has always been so involved in the ‘physical’ that cutting into the wood with this little knife was very satisfying! I lived for months with my face inches away from that block, cutting this way and that. I never really had a technique…just trying to build a solid piece that could hold still and move at the same time. When you come very close to the print I think you feel the touch of the knife.”

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