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John Olsen
1928 Newcastle – 2023 Bowral
New York, 1999
Hard ground line etching with aquatint
$750.00
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prints
artists’ books / books by artists
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New York, 1999
hard ground line etching with aquatint on Saunders paper
not numbered
plate 22.0 x 14.0 cm
sheet 38.0 x 28.0 cm
Printed by Bill Young
inscriptions in pencil below plate: signed John Olsen and dated ‘99
Ref:
McGregor, Ken, John Olsen: his complete graphics 1957-2005, Macmillian Art Publishing, South Yarra, 2005.
New York is one of ten etchings made by John Olsen for:
New York nowhere : meditations and celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital by Geoffrey Dutton and published by Lytlewode Press in 1998.
Eight of the ten etchings signed by John Olsen dated 1999 are available.
other titles:
The Stroke
The Train
Morning New York
Intensive Care
Hospital Inmates
Landscape Bed
Robert Littlewood
$750.00 ea. or all eight $5,250.00
contact[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]John Olsen made ten etchings to accompany Geoffrey Dutton’s poem New York nowhere, which Dutton wrote after his recovery from a stroke he suffered on a train journey from Toronto to New York in mid-1995. The full title of the book is New York nowhere : meditations and celebrations, Neurology Ward, The New York Hospital, and was published in 1998 by Robert Littlewood of Lytlewode Press.
The first etching depicts the moment Dutton suffers The Stroke. What follows is The Train scene in which his wife supports a slumped Dutton’s head. A quite Morning New York image is followed by upheaval in Intensive Care. Hallucinations kick in with Hospital Inmates and perhaps with Landscape Bed also. Though I feel that the Australian overtones in Landscape Bed show rather a healing celebration.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_images_carousel images=”11701,11702,11703,11704,11705,11706,11707,11708″ img_size=”medium” onclick=”kalium_lightbox” autoplay=”yes” hide_pagination_control=”yes” hide_prev_next_buttons=”yes” wrap=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row]