Tower of Babel by Dean Jackson Meeker
Tower of Babel
Dean Jackson Meeker
Title
Tower of Babel
Artist
Dean Jackson Meeker
1920 - 2002 (biography)Year
1961 (dated "63")
Technique
color serigraph and polymer intaglio
Image Size
34 x 19 3/4" platemark
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
40 of 50
Annotations
pencil titled and editioned 40/50
Reference
Leissring page 155, in color; Dewey, page 115
Paper
heavy wove antique-white Rives
State
published
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
20964
Price
$1,250.00
Description
Meeker developed the polymer intaglio method in Paris, working closely with Atelier 17 trained printmaker Kaiko Moti who had been instrumental in controlling the simultaneous color printing technique to allow for printing a cohesive edition.
To accomplish his multi step collographic printing method Meeker developed the Meeker-McFee press, which he marketed for a number of years.
Meeker often turned to the biblical and mythological world for his inspiration, as he did with this, the Tower of Babel from Genesis. Meeker's Tower has a third dimension as a result of the polymer printing. The structure rises somewhat haphazardly out of the earth, illuminated by a bright blue sky. A powerful image.