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Sylvia Plimack Mangold

SELECTED WORKS
Untitled (December 29th, 1985)
1985
Acrylic, egg tempera, and ink on paper

Paper/Image size: 19 1/4 x 23 1/2 inches (48.9 x 59.7 cm)
Frame size: 26 1/4 x 30 3/4 inches (66.7 x 78.1 cm)
Signed verso “Sylvia Plimack Mangold”, dated “12/29/85”, and media detailed as “ink, temp[e]ra, acrylic
(Inventory #36625)

The Pin Oak 4/09
2009
Watercolor with pencil on paper

Image/paper size: 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Frame size: 30 1/2 x 38 1/2 inches (77.5 x 97.8 cm)
Initialed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #32316)

The Pin Oak 4/13
2013
Watercolor and pencil on paper

Image/paper size:  22 x 24 inches  (55.9 x 61 cm)
Frame size:  29 1/4 x 31 1/4 inches  (74.3 x 79.4 cm)
Initialed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #32318)

The Elm Tree (8/8/96)
1996
Watercolor and pencil on paper

Paper size: 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Frame size: 30 3/8 x 25 3/4 inches (77.2 x 65.4 cm)
Signed and titled along upper left edge in graphite
(Inventory #35301)

The Elm Tree 5/96
1996
Watercolor and pencil on paper with deckled edge

Paper size: 22 x 15 inches (55.9 x 38.1 cm)
Frame size: 31 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches (79.4 x 61.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #35302)

Winter Pin Oak
1999-2000
Drypoint with aquatint

Edition of 30
Image size: 22 1/4 x 28 inches (56.5 x 71.1 cm)
Paper size: 29 1/2 x 36 inches (74.9 x 91.4 cm)
Frame size: 33 x 38 1/2 inches (83.8 x 97.8 cm)
Signed and dated ‘Sylvia Plimack Mangold 2000’ lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #33704)

Winter Pin Oak Diptych (A & B)
2005
Set of two drypoints with aquatint on paper with deckled edge

Image size: 22 1/4 x 9 inches (57 x 22.9 cm)
Paper size: 29 x 17 inches each sheet (74 x 43 cm)
Edition of 30
Signed lower center, dated lower right and numbered lower left with A & B initialed in pencil on each sheet
(Inventory #27958)

Summer Maple
2008
Drypoint and aquatint

Edition of 30
Image size: 16 3/4 x 21 inches (42.5 x 53.3 cm)
Paper size: 22 1/4 x 26 inches (56.5 x 66 cm)
Signed ‘Sylvia Plimack Mangold’ and dated lower right, titled and numbered lower left
(Inventory #32370)

Pin Oak Crown
2006
Drypoint and etching with aquatint

Edition of 34
Image/paper size:  17 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches  (45 x 60.3 cm)
Signed, dated, and numbered lower right in graphite
(Inventory #32457)

Winter Elm
1995
Etching with aquatint on paper with deckled edge

Image/plate size: 12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
Paper size: 21 x 19 7/8 inches (53.3 x 50.5 cm)
Edition of 30
Signed lower center, dated lower right and numbered lower left
(Inventory #24907)

The Maple Tree
1998
Lithograph

Edition of 40
Image size: 21 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches (54.6 x 49.5 cm)
Paper size: 31 5/8 x 23 1/2 inches (80.3 x 59.7 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left and titled lower center
(Inventory #32536)

PT Tree (A)
1991
Monotype (unique) on Rives BFK paper with deckled edge

Image/plate size: 11 9/16 x 9 3/8 inches  (29.4 x 23.8 cm)
Paper size: 22 1/2 x 15 1/8 inches  (57.2 x 38.4 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, titled lower center, and inscribed 1/1 lower left in graphite
(Inventory #34149)

Maple Tree Detail
2015
Drypoint with spitbite aquatint on paper with deckled edge

Image/plate size: 11 x 13 7/8 inches (27.9 x 35.2 cm)
Paper size: 17 5/8 x 20 inches (44.8 x 50.8 cm)
Frame size: 20 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches (51.4 x 57.2 cm)
Edition of 30
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left
(Inventory #36037)

Nut Trees (Red)
1985
Drypoint, aquatint, and spitbite aquatint from three plates in black, yellow ocher, and red

Edition of 25
Image/plate size: 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (18.5 x 26.6 cm)
Paper size: 26 1/4 x 20 1/2 inches (66.7 x 52.1 cm)
Signed lower center, numbered lower left and dated lower right in graphite
(Inventory #32073)

Great Neck Rule
1975
Acrylic on paper

Paper size: 18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm)
Frame size: 21 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches (54.6 x 69.9 cm)
Signed Sylvia Mangold, titled, dated 8/75 along lower edge
(Inventory #34960)

Floor II
1974
Lithograph from one plate in black on Rives BFK White paper

Edition of 38
Image size: 22 x 30 1/8 inches (55.8 x 76.6 cm)
Paper size: 29 3/4 x 37 3/8 inches (75.4 x 95 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left
(Inventory #26595)

Flexible and Stainless
1975
Lithograph from one plate and three stones in black (twice), transparent gray, and light opaque yellow on Arches Cover white paper

Image size: 10 5/8 x 15 inches (27.3 x 38.2 cm)
Paper size: 21 1/8 x 29 3/8 inches (53.7 x 74.6 cm)
Edition of 50
Signed lower right, titled lower center and numbered lower left
(Inventory #32058)

Aquatint, Sugarlift and Golden Changes
1977
Portfolio of 3 etchings and aquatints in color

Images size (landscape): 8 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches (21.2 x 28.89 cm)
Image size (monochrome & ruler): 3 1/8 x 5 inches (7.9 x 12.7 cm)
Image size (ruler & brushstrokes): 8 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches (21.59 x 21.9 cm)
Paper size: 10 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches each (27.6 x 35.2 cm each)
Edition of 50
Signed and numbered lower right in pencil
(Inventory #35284)

Additional Information

Sylvia Plimack Mangold is an American painter and teacher.  She was born in 1938 in New York City and studied at Yale after receiving a certificate from the Cooper Union. She began exhibiting her paintings in the late 1960’s. In the 1980’s the primary focus of her work became landscapes of the Hudson River Valley, where she lives.

A 1993 retrospective of her works on paper traveled to six university art museums. Plimack Mangold has been included in many group exhibitions, including WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and Building and Breaking the Grid: 1962-2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as shows at the Museum of Modern Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Annamarie Verna Galerie, Zurich.

Sylvia Plimack Mangold received the 2007 CU President’s Citation and was inducted into The Cooper Union Hall of Fame in 2009.