Sean Mellyn

Ripple Chip

1997

Upside-down head with dark eye makeup partially submerged in rippling water against a yellow background.
Upside-down head with dark eye makeup partially submerged in rippling water against a yellow background.

Recto

Not on view

Date
1997

Classification
Prints

Medium
Aquatint, photoetching, and woodcut

Dimensions
Sheet: 20 1/8 × 14 13/16 in. (51.1 × 37.6 cm) Plate: 17 9/16 × 12 1/2 in. (44.6 × 31.8 cm)

Accession number
99.61.4

Edition
19/36

Publication
Printed by Brooklyn Press; published by Maureen Mahony; published by Janis Stemmermann

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/12169

Part of a series:
20" x 15"
5 works

Magazine cover titled FAT showing three nude figures with a kneeling woman in the center.
Abstract circular artwork with turquoise, magenta, and brown segmented shapes on a white background.
Upside-down head with dark eye makeup partially submerged in rippling water against a yellow background.
Rectangular artwork with floral wallpaper, brown paint drip, a small cloud and false eyelashes.
A red and yellow Sunnydale Farms milk carton print reads "Say No To Drugs" with smiling faces.


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