Elegy for a Forgotten Day

• Title Elegy for a Forgotten Day
• Category Print
• Medium Aquatint on Paper
• Medium Other
• Dimensions 14"h x 17.75"w
• Framed Dimensions 25.5"h x 27"w
• Year Completed 1975
• Description Son of Armenians who fled from Turkey during the Armenian genocide. “The Armenian diaspora has lived with a sense of unfinished business and injustice ever sine, and this history influenced Marc’s work.” He resurrected the mezzotint medium, popular for reproducing Constables and Turners. “He usually used a restricted palette of black and white, whether in small mezzotints or larger drawings and watercolors. His subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars in the background or piles of planks leaning against each other. The images are disturbing in their ambiguity.”
• Artist Marc Balakjian British 1938-2017
• Credit Carlson Collection
• Location Lindaman Second Floor Hallway
• Accession Number 2023.0012
• Status Checked Out
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