Landline Blue
A monumental composition of horizontal bands of colour, this etching showcases Scully's mastery of printmaking techniques to achieve rich, atmospheric layers of blue, grey, and earth tones. The interplay of aquatint, spit bite, and sugar-lift creates subtle variations in texture and tone within each stripe, evoking both the vast expanse of landscape and the horizon where land meets sky. Scully's signature vocabulary of bold, abutting bands is rendered here with a warmth and depth that speaks to his enduring exploration of colour, materiality, and emotional resonance.
- Medium
- Etching with aquatint, spit bite and sugar-lift in colours, on wove paper,
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Evening & Day Editions
June 11, 2015
Artists in conversation
Kenneth Noland
American · b. 1924
Noland's mature stripe paintings share Scully's devotion to horizontal banded compositions that carry emotional and spatial weight through color relationships alone, creating a similarly meditative and contemplative mood through geometric abstraction.
Gene Davis
American · b. 1920
Davis dedicated his career to vertical and horizontal stripe compositions exploring how abutting bands of color interact atmospherically, producing works with the same cool toned palette and rhythmic visual language seen in this Landline piece.
Callum Innes
Scottish · b. 1962
Innes works with layered washes of cool blues and earth tones that evoke landscape horizons and atmospheric depth, sharing Scully's contemplative mood and his interest in subtle textural variation within restrained geometric formats.
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