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Artist |
Tyler, Valton |
Caption |
Freezing Point |
Collection |
TMA |
Credit Line |
An anonymous gift |
Date |
1971 |
Description |
Valton Tyler (1944-2017) was a self-taught artist who depicted imagined landscapes. These works featured unique interplays of identifiable, organic, mechanistic, and surreal shapes that often rise from moutain, desert, or arctic landscapes. Tyler mostly focused on graphite drawings and paintings, although he had one etching series which this piece was a part of. All of his pieces are forms and structures created from imagined worlds and are free forming. This piece showcases a black ink etching on a white background. We are shown a distorted city atop a stone platform. Each building is different from the last with some structures merging into each other while others break off and splinter away. Various elements of interacting space and pointed angles highlight the space. There are many different windows, doors, and staircases scattered around the city, each one connecting the city together and deepening the space further. |
Dimensions |
H-23 L-34.5 inches |
Medium |
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Material |
Ink/Paper |
Catalog Number |
1972.13 |
Title |
Freezing Point |