ticketsMember | Make a donation

Untitled

2017
Not on view
Whitney has long experimented with color and its effects. In the 1990s, he found inspiration in the art, architecture, and monuments he encountered in Rome and Egypt. As a result, his works became more structured and the forms denser, so as to resemble layers of bricks and other stacked forms. Whitney begins each composition with the square in the top left corner; from there, he moves across the surface to create rows of horizontal registers, each containing multiple irregularly shaped and sized squares.These vibrant squares can be read autonomously as small, individual paintings as well as a series of geometric forms on horizontal registers that are vertically stacked to create an irregularly ordered grid. Here, Whitney focuses on the loose, painterly outlines of each square and its relationship to the white surface. The print exhibits the intense sensations of color and movement, as well as the influence of music (in particular jazz), that are found throughout Whitney’s oeuvre.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Untitled
  • Artist: Stanley Whitney (American, born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1946)
  • Date: 2017
  • Medium: Single color etching
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 23 3/4 × 35 1/2 in. (60.3 × 90.2 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Craig and Elizabeth Zammiello, 2022
  • Object Number: 2022.455
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

More Artwork

More Artwork
A slider containing 5 items.
Press the down key to skip to the last item.
Yellow Changing, Stanley Whitney American, Color aquatint
Yellow Changing
Stanley Whitney
2011
Fly the Wild, Stanley Whitney American, Oil on linen canvas
Fly the Wild
Stanley Whitney
2017
He Disappeared into Complete Silence, Louise Bourgeois American, Engraving and drypoint with letterpress in a linen portfolio cover
He Disappeared into Complete Silence
Louise Bourgeois
1947
Resurrection Story with Patrons, Kara Walker American, Etching with aquatint, sugar-lift, spit-bite and dry-point, Printed on Hahnemuhle Copperplate Bright White 400gsm paper
Resurrection Story with Patrons
Kara Walker
Gregory Burnet
2017
Cloth: Label 1, Richard Tuttle American, Etching with aquatint, spitbite, sugarlift, softground, fabric collé
Cloth: Label 1
Multiple artists/makers
2002–05

Related Content

Perspectives

Articles, audio, and video from The Met's online magazine.

Research Resources

The Met provides unparalleled resources for research and welcomes an international community of students and scholars. The Met's Open Access API is where creators and researchers can connect to the The Met collection. Open Access data and public domain images are available for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use without permission or fee.

To request images under copyright and other restrictions, please use this Image Request form.

Feedback

We continue to research and examine historical and cultural context for objects in The Met collection. If you have comments or questions about this object record, please complete and submit this form. The Museum looks forward to receiving your comments.