Accession Code: wu0032 Title: Untitled Date completed: 1964 Medium: Prints Material: Screenprint Height (mm): 610 Width (mm): 509 Depth (mm): n/a Inscription: Blind stamped with publishers mark,lower right. Location Name: Senate House Location Description: Wellbeing Support Services Location Floor: 1

© Larry Poons / VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London 2021
 

This print is part of a portfolio of 10 screenprints, published in an edition of 500 by Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut. These prints by leading American artists of the 1960s, demonstrate how appropriate the medium was for the hard edged style of post-painterly abstraction.

The prints were commissioned by Sam Wagstaff, Curator of the Wadsworth Athenaeum. He said that he wanted people 'to get as big a hunk of the current aesthetic as they could as cheaply as possible'. Wagstaff asked each artist to provide a design; a proof was returned to them for approval and/or adjustment.

Poons' contribution to the series reflects the early period of his work inspired by music, using a subtle repetitative motif and optical after-images to give an illusion of movement.