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Sean Scully — Landline Blue
Sean Scully

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,

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Evening & Day Editions

June 11, 2015

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Sean Scully, 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,
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Abstract Art, Contemplative Mood, Stripe Composition, Landscape Reference, Horizontal Stripe Composition, Male Artist, Etching, Irish-American Artist, Printmaking, Contemporary Master, Geometric Abstraction, Late 20th Century, Etching and Aquatint, Cool Blue Tones, Meditative Mood, Contemporary Art, Established Artist, Horizontal Stripes, Cool Color Palette, Aquatint

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