Michael Kelly Williams - New Music 1982 Monoprint 10/40 - Signed!

This is a detailed record of "New Music" (1982), a notable early print by the prominent African-American artist and master printmaker Michael Kelly Williams (b. 1950).

Artwork Overview

• Artist: Michael Kelly Williams (American, born 1950). Williams is highly regarded for his printmaking, sculptures, and mosaic murals, often drawing deep thematic inspiration from jazz, Afrofuturism, and the African diaspora.

• Title: New Music (Often noted as part of a conceptual series or precursor to his 1983 color intaglio work, New Music II).

• Year: 1982. This marks an important early period in Williams' career shortly after he joined the historic Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York City in 1979.

• Medium: Monoprint. Williams frequently worked with experimental unique prints and mixed print media during his residency at Blackburn's workshop, using thin pieces of metal and plastic to construct his fields.

• Edition: 10/40. While true "monotypes" are completely unique 1/1 iterations, a "monoprint" series numbered out of 40 indicates that a repeatable matrix (like an etched plate or woodblock) was used for a base edition of 40, but each print was individually hand-inked or altered to make every number distinct.

• Signature: Signed and dated by the artist in the lower margin.

L - 30 3/4" x H - 26 1/2" x W - 1 7/8" 

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