Sylvia Plimack Mangold

SELECTED WORKS
Untitled (A)
1982
Oil on linen

Painting size: 12 x 14 inches (30.5 x 35.5 cm)
Frame size: 12 7/8 x 14 7/8 inches (32.7 x 37.8 cm)
Signed and dated verso
(Inventory #39239)

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
2001
Watercolor and pencil on paper

Paper size: 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Frame size: 29 1/2 x 37 1/4 inches (74.9 x 94.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower right recto “Sylvia Plimack Mangold 9/01”
(Inventory #36029)

November 1982
1982
Watercolor and acrylic on paper

Paper size: 16 3/4 x 23 15/16 inches (42.5 x 60.8 cm)
Frame size: 20 3/8 x 26 3/4 inches (51.8 x 67.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right recto
(Inventory #37863)

January 4th, 1986
1986
Ink and egg tempera on paper

Paper size: 17 3/4 x 22 1/2 inches (45.1 x 57.1 cm)
Frame size: 25 x 29 5/8 inches (63.5 x 75.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower recto
(Inventory #39233)

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)

Before Painting the Peripheral Tapes
1978-9 c.
Oil and graphite on canvas board

Canvas size: 9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Frame size: 14 5/8 x 17 3/4 inches (37.1 x 45.1 cm)
Signed and titled verso
(Inventory #37244)

Untitled
1978
Ochre and black ink on sketchbook paper with perforated edge

Image size:  6 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches  (15.9 x 31.1 cm)
Paper size:  11 x 14 inches  (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
Signed ‘Sylvia Plimack Mangold’ and dated lower right below image
(Inventory #26769)

The Pin Oak Detail (A & B)
2003
Diptych with drypoint and aquatint on paper with deckled edge

Image size: 13 x 10 1/4 inches each (33 x 26 cm each)
Paper size: 25 x 18 1/2 inches each (63.5 x 47 cm each)
Edition of 25
Signed and dated lower right, titled and numbered lower left on each sheet in graphite
(Inventory #24905)

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)

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)

Summer Maple
2008
Drypoint and etching with aquatint on paper

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)
Edition of 30
Signed, dated, and numbered lower recto
(Inventory #32507)

The Maple Tree
1999
Etching with spitbite and aquatint on paper

Image size: 8 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (22.5 x 20 cm)
Paper size: 12 x 11 inches (30.5 x 27.9 cm)
Edition of 25, 7 AP
Signed, dated, and notated “TP” lower recto
(Inventory #37916)

Pin Oak
2004
Drypoint

Image size: 22 x 27 3/4 inches (55.9 x 70.5 cm)
Paper size: 29 3/4 x 36 inches (75.6 x 91.4 cm)
Edition of 20, 10 AP
(Inventory #37395)

The Elm Tree
1991
Drypoint and etching with aquatint on paper

Image size: 16 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches (42.5 x 32.4 cm)
Paper size: 30 x 22 inches (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Edition of 35, 10 AP
Signed, dated, titled, and numbered lower recto
(Inventory #24908)

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)

Maple Tree
1998
Drypoint and etching on paper

Image size: 13 3/4 x 11 inches (34.9 x 27.9 cm)
Paper size: 22 1/4 x 18 inches (56.5 x 45.7 cm)
Frame size: 23 1/2 x 19 3/8 inches (59.7 x 49.2 cm)
Edition of 25
Signed, dated, and numbered lower recto
(Inventory #36036)

Elk River III, Color Study
1994
Drypoint, scraping, sanding, burnishing,, roulette, and etching with aquatint, sugarlift, and spitbite on paper

Image size: 10 x 15 inches (25.4 x 38.1 cm)
Paper size: 18 x 22 1/2 inches (45.7 x 57.1 cm)
Edition of 30, 8 AP
Signed and dated recto lower right
(Inventory #37654)

Hazel Boyd Eureka
1997
Drypoint, etching and color spitbite aquatint

Image/plate size: 10 1/2 in x 7 7/8 in (26.7 cm x 20 cm)
Paper size: 21 3/4 in x 17 in (55.4 cm x 43.3 cm)
Edition of 50, 10 AP
(Inventory #38161)

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)

Elk River I
1993
Drypoint, scraping, roulette, sanding, and etching with aquatint on paper

Drypoint, scraping, roulette, sanding, and etching with aquatint on paper
Image size: 10 x 15 inches (25.4 x 38.1 cm)
Paper size: 18 x 22 1/2 inches (45.7 x 57.1 cm)
Edition of 30, 8 AP
Signed, dated, and numbered lower recto
(Inventory #37652)

Winter Elm
1997
Drypoint and aquatint

Image size: 7 x 11 inches (17.8 x 27.9 cm)
Paper size: 13 1/4 x 17 1/8 inches (33.7 x 43.5 cm)
Frame Size: 15 3/4 x 19 3/8 inches (40 x 49.2 cm)
Edition of 25, 10 AP, WP
Initialed, dated, and annotated
(Inventory #37846)

The Maple Tree
1990
Drypoint and aquatint

Image size: 19 7/8 x 28 inches (50.48 x 71.1 cm)
Paper size: 27 7/8 x 39 1/4 inches (70.8 x 99.7 cm)
Frame size: 28 3/4 x 36 1/2 inches (73 x 92.7 cm)
Edition of 35, 10 AP
Signed and dated lower right, titled lower center and numbered lower left
(Inventory #35225)

River Study
1993
Drypoint, scraping, roulette, sanding, and etching with aquatint on paper

Image size: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm)
Paper size: 12 1/2 x 15 inches (31.8 x 38.1 cm)
Edition of 30, 8 AP, this being a working proof
Initialed, dated, and notated, “WP”
(Inventory #37687)

Maple Tree Detail A
2009
Mezzotint with drypoint on paper

Image size: 6 x 6 inches (15.2 x 15.2 cm)
Paper size: 18 x 14 inches (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
Edition of 30
Signed, dated, titled, and numbered lower recto
(Inventory #37919)

Maple Tree Detail B
2009
Mezzotint with drypoint on paper

Image size: 6 x 6 inches (15.2 x 15.2 cm)
Paper size: 18 x 14 inches (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
Edition of 30
Signed, dated, titled, and numbered lower recto
(Inventory #37922)

Untitled (Maple Tree) from the Couples Portfolio
1994
Drypoint, etching with aquatint, and spitbite

Edition of 75
Image/plate size: 12 x 11 7/8 inches (30.5 x 30.2 cm)
Paper size: 19 x 20 inches (48.3 x 50.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #32384)

Six Inches Four Ways
1976
Rubber stamp print on Kilmurray paper

Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Edition of 1000
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by A. Colish Press
Numbered lower verso. Unsigned.
(Inventory #37755)

Untitled
1976
Rubber stamp print on paper

Paper size: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm)
Uneditioned, with approximately 30 proofs (#5)
Stamp made by Unity Engraving Company, Inc.
Printed by A. Colish Press
Unsigned and unnumbered
(Inventory #38007)

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.