Still Water (The River Thames, for Example), August 17, 1999---Image G

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Still Water (The River Thames, for Example), August 17, 1999---Image G

1999

Roni Horn (American, born 1955)

Roni Horn's details of the River Thames, dark and lushly printed as offset lithographs after photographs, are sprinkled with tiny numbers that refer to texts printed like footnotes beneath each image. Usually the texts refer to Horn's private thoughts, although some are quotations from sources as varied as popular song lyrics, poetry, and news stories of suicides in the Thames (a leitmotif of this print, which is part of a series). If one reads the footnotes of the series consecutively, the reiteration of texts and repeated questions and answers evoke the rhythms and surges of waves and tides.

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Object Details

Title:

Still Water (The River Thames, for Example), August 17, 1999---Image G

Date:

1999

Artist:

Roni Horn (American, born 1955)

Medium:

Offset lithograph (photograph and text combined) on uncoated paper; artist's proof 2/5

Dimensions:

Image and sheet: 30 5/16 x 41 1/2 inches (77 x 105.4 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Marion Stroud Fund for Contemporary Art on Paper, 2000

Accession Number:

2000-121-1

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