HOW A GREAT DAILY ORGAN IS TURNED OUT

Printer Aldo Crommelynck French, born Monaco

1987–90

Not on view

Hamilton’s career is marked by his fascination with James Joyce’s novel Ulysses (1922). To illustrate an episode in the book that takes place in the editorial offices of the Freeman’s Journal, Hamilton worked with the Parisian master printer Aldo Crommelynck to combine the twenty individual plates from his earlier Joyce-inspired portfolio, IRELAND A NATION (1988), into the format of a single newspaper
broadsheet. The result is a catalogue of the many intaglio techniques Hamilton used to translate Joyce’s stylistic jumps and linguistic references into pictorial equivalents.

Artwork Details

Title: HOW A GREAT DAILY ORGAN IS TURNED OUT
Artist: Richard Hamilton (British, London 1922–2011 Oxfordshire)
Printer: Aldo Crommelynck (French (born Monaco) 1931–2008 Paris)
Publisher: Waddington Graphics
Date: 1987–90
Medium: Intaglio
Edition: 77/120 + 12 artist's proofs
Dimensions: 30 in. × 22 1/16 in. (76.2 × 56 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Purchase, Reba and Dave Williams Gift, 1997
Object Number: 1997.387.2
Rights and Reproduction: © Richard Hamilton
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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