Untitled

Untitled

Fred Williams

1975

ink

From the collection of Museum of Modern Art

About this work

You see a tangle of dark lines and smudges on pale paper—like looking down at the land from a plane. Williams made this print after flying over the Murray River. The marks aren’t trees or rivers; they’re the feeling of space and heat. He boiled the landscape down to its bones. If you like how he turns earth into scribbles, check out the technique: lithography.

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