Upside-down head with dark eye makeup partially submerged in rippling water against a yellow background.

Prints

Ripple Chip

1997

Medium
Aquatint, photoetching, and woodcut
Dimensions
Sheet: 20 1/8 × 14 13/16 in. (51.1 × 37.6 cm) Plate: 17 9/16 × 12 1/2 in. (44.6 × 31.8 cm)
Accession number
99.61.4
Acquired
1999
Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Edition
19/36
Publication
Printed by Brooklyn Press; published by Maureen Mahony; published by Janis Stemmermann
Department
collection

About this work

Sean Mellyn, Ripple Chip, 1997. Aquatint, photoetching, and woodcut, sheet: 20 1/8 × 14 13/16 in. (51.1 × 37.6 cm) Plate: 17 9/16 × 12 1/2 in. (44.6 × 31.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation 99.61.4