Tree

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Tree

1998

Donald Baechler (American, 1956–2022)

Faint traces of images-mostly indecipherable-lurk around the dark branches of Tree, intentionally revealing Baechler's working process. The artist had come across a timeworn copper plate in his print publisher's office, where it was serving as a tabletop, and made two etchings from it, of which Tree is the second. Before making Tree, Baechler immersed the plate in a chemical bath to remove almost all of the previous imagery, leaving only ghostly remains of the first print, Crowd, which depicts a cluster of cartoonlike heads.

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Object Details

Title:

Tree

Date:

1998

Artist:

Donald Baechler (American, 1956–2022)

Medium:

Etching

Dimensions:

Plate: 44 × 33 1/2 inches (111.8 × 85.1 cm) Sheet: 55 1/4 × 42 3/4 inches (140.3 × 108.6 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Hunt Corporation (formerly Hunt Manufacturing Co.) Arts Collection Program, 1998

Accession Number:

1998-137-2

Geography:

Made in United States, North and Central America

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