Richard Tuttle, Print, 1976. Serigraph on paper, 31 1/4 x 22 1/2 in. American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of Brenda and Robert Edelson).
Print is composed of two sheets of handmade watercolor paper with a screen printed black rectangle in the lower register. In art, the diagonal line is often used as an indicator of action or movement to lead the eye of the viewer from one scene to another or to indicate a backward or forward movement. Here, the diagonal line leads from one page to another, highlighting the handmade quality of the paper and the tactility of the ink. The diagonal line is not an indicator of immediate action, but a record of a series of actions that is embedded into the fiber of the workâfrom hand making the paper to manually applying the ink.