1987
ink
From the collection of Museum of Modern Art
Dominant colour
Untitled is a 1987 ink by Leon Golub, held at Museum of Modern Art.
This print shows a close-up of a hand holding a gun, aimed at a person’s head. The person is lying down, face blurred, with a dark cloth over their body. The gun looks heavy and metallic, while the hand holding it is rough, almost sketchy. The artist used a mix of sharp lines and smudged marks to make it feel tense. The print looks like it was made by pressing ink onto stone, then transferring it to paper. Check out lithography to see how this technique works.
Leon Golub was an American painter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he also studied, receiving his BA at the University of Chicago in 1942, and his BFA and MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in…
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