SEARCH

Back

Six Inches Four Ways

Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Six Inches Four Ways
1976
Rubber stamp print on Kilmurray paper

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

$300

Individual impressions available

Plimack Mangold made two distinct, but related images for the project. The first one was never editioned (about 30 impressions were printed), but upon reviewing it in 2024, the artist considered it strong enough to be included in this exhibition. The second image became the contribution to the portfolio and went through a long proofing process that was primarily focused on the type of paper with a focus on the texture and inclusions in a handmade paper. The artist considered the paper as part of the work (on account of the imagery she created that engaged perspective, flatness, subject, and surface) and thus finding a paper with the right amount of inherent “activity” was important for her. The Kilmurray paper provided what she needed for the work.

Read Less Read More

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.

Related Information

View Artist Page