Dark rectangular stage frames a concentric light sunrise over a flat horizon reflected on calm water.

James Turrell

Untitled (Sunrise through the lower aperture of the East Space, Esplanade Level, Roden Crater)

1984

Not on view

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Classification
Prints

Medium
Aquatint and etching

Dimensions
Sheet: 21 3/16 × 27 1/16 in. (53.8 × 68.7 cm) Plate: 12 5/8 × 19 3/8 in. (32.1 × 49.2 cm)

Accession number
2008.250.2

Edition
III/X | Ed. 45

Publication
Printed by Kupferdruckatelier Peter Kneubühler; published by Peter Blum Editions, New York/Zurich

Credit line
Gift of The American Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc. in honor of David W. Kiehl and Brooke Garber Neidich

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/34857

Part of a series:
Deep Sky
7 works

A dark, flat-topped mountain silhouette stands beneath a sparse starry night sky in a minimalist print.
Abstract composition of dark semicircles, a fan-like gradient wedge, and a white horizontal bar.
Dark rounded shapes and a thin diagonal beam of light cross a minimalist grayscale composition.
A large circular light source casts overlapping beams across a dark space with a stepped silhouette.
A dark rectangular room with a narrow vertical slit casting a triangular beam of light across the floor.
A dark rectangular frame reveals a bright concentric sunrise over a calm reflective sea horizon.
A dark starry sky above a softly shaded curved planetary horizon with a small white crater.

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