King George

 

Mark Alan Leithauser

  1950 - PRESENT (biography)

1978  

etching 

15 7/8 x 11 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

44 of 150  

titled, lower left; "imp." and date in lower right 

Kerr 36, illustrated full page 

ivory wove 

published 

artist 

22299 

SOLD

In her introduction "Alternate Landscape" for the Coe Kerr Gallery exhibition catalogue of 1988 curator Ruth E. Fine writes about the etching "King George": "...Leithauser has developed storehouse of images memorized, photographed, and drawn. These become subject details for his constructed compositions. Spatial games, such as those played by the Dutch artist M.C. Escher, and suggestions of metamorphasis intrigue Leithauser too. This may clearly be seen, for example, in the etching 'King George' (cat. no. 36), as the eye moves from the measuring rule in the bottom register through the fences and landscapes in the upper panels. The print records scenes encountered during visits to King George County, Virginia, and is a visual diary set onto a single sheet."