About this work


Crested like palms, like waves, they too subsist

1990-91
Sugar-lift aquatint, air-brush aquatint, and soft-ground etching
Image: 6 7/8 x 7 1/2 in.; paper: 7 x 7 1/4 in.

Page 9 for Volcanic Holiday, an artist's book of the poem by James Merrill with eight etchings by Dorothea Tanning.  Editions Peter Hooten, New York

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