Color Area

Item

Title
Color Area
Creator
Glen Alps
Artist ID
72
Date of Work
1971
Description
Blue geometric grid with a peach/purple rectangle at the top.
Category of Media
Print
Media
Collagraph
Accession Number
1971.051
Location
Display: Library, 2nd floor, Dean's Area, near Lib 2011
Date Acquired
1971
Acquisition Method
Purchase
Dimensions of Work
17" x 17.25"
Frame Dimensions
24.25" x 24.25"
Frame Type
Steel
Artist Bio
Glen Alps (1914-1996) was a printmaker and educator who is credited with having developed the collagraph. A collagraph is a print whose plate is a board or other substrate onto which textured materials are glued. The plate may be inked for printing in either the intaglio or the relief manner and then printed onto paper. Although the inventor of the process is not known, Alps made collagraphy his primary art form and coined the word "collagraph" in 1956. He disseminated the techniques he developed for making collagraphs during his long career as both an artist and a teacher. Alps taught for almost 40 years at the University of Washington.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Alps