Working proof for Fire

Josephine Halvorson (American, born in 1981)
With: James Pettengill (American, born in 1985)

2019

Medium/Technique Five plate aquatint etching with pencil, colored pencil, pen, soft ground, spit bite and sugar lift. Charbonnel Primrose Yellow, Permanent Violet, Cardinal Red, Sap Green and 81 Black on white Somerst Satin.

Dimensions Height x width: 77.5 × 111.8 cm (30 1/2 × 44 in.)

Credit Line The Living New England Artist Purchase Fund

Accession Number2021.417

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionThe artist and printers have finished burnishing out all the texture on the face of the stove and the soft ground line around the flame. This is the first color print since then. The artist has added orange into the center of the large flame. The artist has added notes about changes to be made. Printer James Pettengill has added notes in pencil about changes in bottom right corner, and notes about plate order and printing direction at the bottom of the sheet.

Provenance2019, the artist and Wingate Studio, Winchester, NH; 2021, sold by Wingate Studio to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 16, 2021)