Edition Documentation
SG Edition Record Number 49 / Art Inventory Number SG-690
Artist: Spence Guerin
Title: Mary D Reading a Book
Date: June 1965
Medium: Plexiglass Intaglio
Paper: unidentified, dimensions variable
Image: unidentified
Ink: Black etching ink
ABOUT THIS PRINT
Following discharge from active duty in U.S. Army in May 1965, the artist ended up at Florida State University (FSU) as a part-time graduate student, working part-time in the FSU Department of Publications. In June 1965, he was in a creative printmaking class taught by artist Arthur Deshaies, intaglio using plexiglass as a matrix. "Mary D Reading a Book" was the result of that printmaking class. Mary Darr Byrd was a fellow art student at FSU.
Nine proofs only; each proof, the matrix was modified, and each proof is visually distinct different. Later proofs, part of the matrix carved away, thus printing an embossed area.
PROCESS DESCRIPTION
Plexiglass plate size 19.5" x 13."
For proof 1/9, the image was created by engraving into the plexiglass, inked and printed intaglio. Black etching ink only. June 28, 1965.
EDITION RECORD
Nine proofs only, numbered 1/9 - 9/9.
This print was never editioned.
Hand printed by: The Artist / Assisted by: None
Printed at the Florida State University Art Dept., Tallahassee, Florida
