Irene Rousseau

Crescendo

1997

Grid of shaded squares with a dark broken diagonal band and a red stamp in the lower right.
Grid of shaded squares with a dark broken diagonal band and a red stamp in the lower right.

Irene Rousseau, Crescendo, 1997. Lithograph, sheet: 9 5/8 × 12 11/16 in. (24.4 × 32.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of American Abstract Artists 98.32.33. © Irene Rousseau / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Recto

Not on view

Date
1997

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 12 11/16 in. (24.4 × 32.2 cm)

Accession number
98.32.33

Edition
5/100 | 10 APs, 5 Archival impressions

Publication
Printed by Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper; published by American Abstract Artists

Credit line
Gift of American Abstract Artists

Rights and reproductions
© Irene Rousseau / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/11786

Part of a series:
American Abstract Artists 60th Anniversary Print Portfolio
40 works

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