Robert Ryman
ROBERT RYMAN "ON THE BOWERY" SCREENPRINT, 1969
Robert Ryman (1930–2019) was one of the most important American artists associated with Minimalism.
Over a career spanning six decades, he developed a distinctive visual language through an almost exclusive investigation of white, exploring the relationship between colour, surface, texture, and light.
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Ryman was less interested in illusion, representation, or narrative than in the physical experience of looking. His paintings often employ variations of white to explore subtle distinctions in brushwork, texture, and luminosity. For Ryman, white was not an absence of colour but an expansive field of possibilities.
This untitled screenprint belongs to the important portfolio On the Bowery, which brought together ten artists living or working in Manhattan's Bowery neighbourhood in 1970, including Cy Twombly, Robert Indiana, Richard Smith, and Les Levine. The portfolio offers a remarkable cross-section of the diverse artistic practices emerging in downtown New York at the time.
Ryman's contribution is an early example of his distinctive white-on-white visual language. Deceptively restrained, the composition reveals the complexity and expressive potential of subtle variations in surface, tone, and gesture. It is an especially interesting example of Ryman translating his exacting approach to painting into the language of printmaking.
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Untitled, from On the Bowery
1969
Screenprint on Schodles-Hammer paper
Numbered 92/100 in pencil, upper middle
Signed and dated in pencil, lower middle
Edition: 100
Published by Edition Domberger KG, Bonlanden, Germany; with their blindstamp, lower left
25.5"H 25.5"W (sheet)
27"H 27"W (framed)
Literature: Sandback RRG1
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