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Ynez Johnston Vintage Original Etching Aquatint Print
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This is a gorgeous Original Hand-Signed Etching with Aquatint by Listed Artist Ynez Johnston (1920-2019). Johnston’s work is featured in …
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This is a gorgeous Original Hand-Signed Etching with Aquatint by Listed Artist Ynez Johnston (1920-2019). Johnston’s work is featured in various permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Spencer Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, among others. In 1951, her work was featured in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. This is a rare chance to own one of her original etchings. It is hand-signed in pencil in the lower right, titled "Off Patagonia" lower-center, and numbered 3/35 in the lower left. Unframed as shown. Mat is not attached but can be included upon request.
Certification: Our Gallery Certificate of Authenticity with provenance included.
Condition: Etching in very good condition. Some waviness to the paper likely from the intense color saturation. Very minor mat line. Unframed as shown.
Measurements: Strike is approx 9"x12" and it is approx 11.5"x14.5" full paper size.
About the Artist: Ynez Johnston’s work is featured in various permanent collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Spencer Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, among others. In 1951, her work was featured in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Subsequently, she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, first place in watercolor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1952, and Fresno Art Museum's Distinguished Artist Award in 1992.
Characterized by intricate compositions, Ynez Johnston’s watercolors, oils and etchings are rich with complex imagery. Melding her own visual language from both modern and ancient art, Johnson constructs her mythical landscapes and figures in a variety of media, including oil, casein, watercolor, ceramic, wood, and combinations thereof. Of the fantastic imagery that continuously emerges in her work, Johnston has stated, “Some images, themes, mind-materials seem to recur almost obsessively in my work. These appear to be composite shapes: the running together of architectural, landscape and animal and human forms. Pervading such images is a kind of medieval worldview, with overtones of the mythic, the legendary, fairy tales…”
After her studies at the University of California, she traveled extensively through Italy, Mexico, India, and Nepal, further broadening her artistic vocabulary. In the early 1940s, Johnston traveled to Mexico to continue her studies but returned to Berkeley in 1943 eventually earning a Masters of Fine Arts in 1946. In 1949, she summered in Paris and then relocated to the Los Angeles area in the fall. Finding herself without a studio or press, Leonard Edmondson, a friend from college, opened his studio to her. She experimented with woodcut and began to do sculpture in 1950.
In later mixed-media pieces, she examined the tactile qualities of surface. Her paintings incorporated soil, acrylic, dyes, and encaustic on cloth, canvas, and raw silk. Composite forms suggest ambiguous architectural, human, animal and plant shapes. Johnston cited Persian and Indian miniatures as influences but also drew inspiration from European abstract artists Matisse, Miro, Klee and Picasso.
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- Dimensions
- 14.5ʺW × 0.01ʺD × 11.5ʺH
- Art Subjects
- Abstract
- Architecture
- Cityscape
- Frame Type
- Unframed
- Period
- Mid 20th Century
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Aquatint
- Etching
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Brick Red
- Condition Notes
- Etching in very good condition. Some waviness to the paper likely from the intense color saturation. Very minor mat line. … moreEtching in very good condition. Some waviness to the paper likely from the intense color saturation. Very minor mat line. Unframed as shown. less
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