Untitled

Untitled

Fred Williams

1966

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

This print is all gray and black marks on a rough, textured background. You can’t tell what it is—just scattered lines, dots, and shapes. Some look like sticks or branches, others are blobs or smudges. The whole thing feels messy and uneven, like something scribbled fast. The artist used a sharp tool to carve into metal, then inked it to make this print. That’s called drypoint—it leaves fuzzy edges. Next, check out etching, drypoint, aquatint to see how it works.

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