In The Hollow of the Deep Sea Wave

Drawing of a large blue wave coming over a black and white photograph of the Brooklyn Bridge and part of the New York City skyline.
Print of a large blue wave against a beige sky.

Michael Knigin (1942 – 2011)
1978
Lithograph on paper
83/100
Art Collection purchase
2001.7.4

Inspired by Katsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa, 1830-1832
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Artist Michael Knigin, a native of East Hampton, New York, co-published two important reference works on the technique of lithographic printmaking in the 1970s. In this cross-cultural juxtaposition, he imagines the city of New York engulfed by the tsunami-like wave of Hokusai’s iconic color woodcut. The lithograph is from a series called “Miraculous Misfits,” intended as a commentary on ecological concerns.