Sherry Smith Bell, Jean Burg, Ann Chernow, Eduardo Fausti, Xenia Fedorchenko, Stephen A. Fredericks, Mitchell Friedman, Yuji Hiratsuka, Alan J. Larkin, Dan Miller, and James Reed
Sherry Smith Bell, Blue Sky Press, Lafayette, CA, publisher
2008
Fairchild Fund purchase
2022.17.1.0
These two prints are from the 2008 Translations portfolio, a suite of eleven impressions in various intaglio media by as many artists. For this collaboration the artists were asked to create a new interpretation of a painting that had influenced them in some way. Jean Burg based her work on Camille Pissaro’s Broken glimpses … The Côte des Boeufs at L’Hermitage (National Gallery, London, 1877), and Yuji Hiratsuka found inspiration in Edvard Munch’s The Scream (National Gallery, London and Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway, 1893). Each print is accompanied by a reproduction of the source artwork along with a brief statement by the artist.
As Ira H. Latour explained in the introductory text, contemporary artists stand, “on the shoulders of those who have gone before. …It is a continual and on-going conflict between tradition and the advent of the modern, between preservation of the old and the search for the new that leads to inevitable change.”