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Cloth: Label 1

2002–05
Not on view
Tuttle creates art that is both nuanced and precise, with seemingly simple elements revealing subtle contrasts and remarkable complexity. He frequently uses unconventional methods and materials to conceive poetic constructions that highlight issues of vulnerability, engagement, and reflection. This work is drawn from the series Cloth—a set of sixteen vibrantly colored prints, each of which is based on a different fabric that Tuttle cut into distinct shapes, manipulated, and placed into contact with the print. With their layered washes of color, patterns, and designs, these dynamic compositions show Tuttle’s experimentation with technique, modes of perception, and materiality. The subtitle Label, which the artist inscribed at the bottom center of each print, questions the relationship between label and image and the convention of labeling itself.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Cloth: Label 1
  • Series/Portfolio: edition 25
  • Artist: Richard Tuttle (American, born Rahway, New Jersey, 1941)
  • Publisher: Brooke Alexander, Inc. (New York)
  • Printer: Gregory Burnet
  • Printer: Brian Rumbolo
  • Date: 2002–05
  • Medium: Etching with aquatint, spitbite, sugarlift, softground, fabric collé
  • Dimensions: 16 × 16 in. (40.6 × 40.6 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 2023
  • Object Number: 2023.72.1
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Richard Tuttle
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Cloth: Label 5, Richard Tuttle American, Etching with aquatint, spitbite, sugarlift, softground, fabric collé
Cloth: Label 5
Multiple artists/makers
2002–05
Cloth: Label 11, Richard Tuttle American, Etching with aquatint, spitbite, sugarlift, softground, fabric collé
Cloth: Label 11
Multiple artists/makers
2002–05
Cloth: Label 12, Richard Tuttle American, Etching with aquatint, spitbite, sugarlift, softground, fabric collé
Cloth: Label 12
Multiple artists/makers
2002–05
Cloth: Label 6, Richard Tuttle American, Etching with aquatint, spitbite, sugarlift, softground, fabric collé
Cloth: Label 6
Multiple artists/makers
2002–05
Cloth: Label 13, Richard Tuttle American, Etching with aquatint, spitbite, sugarlift, softground, fabric collé
Cloth: Label 13
Multiple artists/makers
2002–05

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