Ellen Lanyon
American, 1926-2013
Duet
INV-1380
Ellen Lanyon
American, 1926-20131950–51
aquatintprint
Date
1950–51
Medium
Color aquatint and etching, with gold leaf, on stiff, thick cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 31.8 × 40.2 cm (12 9/16 × 15 7/8 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 46.7 cm (12 11/16 × 18 7/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Peter H. Ulrich in memory of Erna Ulrich Rosenberger
Ellen Lanyon attended SAIC, graduating in 1948. Duet exemplifies the artist’s conflation of her interests in early Italian metal-leaf methods and printmaking. The work was conceived at the University of Iowa, where Lanyon received a graduate degree in 1950, and revised in 1951 with additional plates and varying applications of gold and silver leaf. This experimentation served as the basis for the artist’s postgraduate study at the Courtauld Institute, London. Lanyon also taught at Ox-Bow beginning in 1960 and served as its academic director from 1972 to 1982.
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