Screenprint on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/peter-lanyon-1467" aria-label="More by Peter Lanyon" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Peter Lanyon</a>
Underground
Presented by Warren MacKenzie 1985
abstraction
colour
from recognisable sources
irregular forms
landscape
landscape
landscape - non-specific
non-representational
paper print screenprint
25 September 2021 – 29 January 2022
2022-01-29
25 September 2021 – 29 January 2022
2022-01-29
2021-09-25
Hatton Gallery (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
2021-09-25
Print Goes Pop: Warhol to Paolozzi
Loan-out
Underground
image: 265 × 247 mm
frame: 424 × 439 × 39 mm
Presented by Warren MacKenzie 1985
<p><b>Peter Lanyon</b><span> 1918-64 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/lanyon-underground-p11082" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P11082</span></a> </span><b>Underground</b><span>
1951 </span>
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<p><span>Screenprint on machine-made paper 265 x 247 (10 3/8 x 9 3/4); printed by the artist and Warren MacKenzie in an edition of 8</span>
<br/><span>Inscribed on back at centre ‘Underground from Peter to Alix + Warren New Year 1952'</span><br/><span>Presented by Warren MacKenzie 1985 </span>
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<p><span>Warren MacKenzie, who was present at the making of this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>print</span></a>, has written in a letter to the Tate Gallery postmarked 25 November 1987: </span>
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<blockquote><span>This was the first silk <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/screenprint" title="Glossary definition for 'Screenprint'"><span>screen print</span></a> Peter made. We gathered at Bernard Leach's cottage where my wife Alix &amp; I were living to teach interested St Ives artists the seriograph techniques. Peter experimented and when he was unhappy with the first results took turps and washed [the] first printings off the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/paper" title="Glossary definition for 'Paper'"><span>paper</span></a> leaving only a stain. He liked this and overprinted several other screens to complete the print. After discovering this wash off technique he used it in his second print ‘In the Trees'. </span>
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<p><span>MacKenzie recalls that he acquired both prints shortly after they had been exhibited in a local gallery in St Ives in December 1951 (see also entries for Patrick Hayman </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P11094" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P11094');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P11094</span></a><span>
and </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P11095" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P11095');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P11095</span></a><span>, Alix MacKenzie </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P11096" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P11096');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P11096</span></a><span>, </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P11097" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P11097');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P11097</span></a><span>
and </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P11098" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P11098');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P11098</span></a><span>, Warren MacKenzie </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P02942" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P02942');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P02942</span></a><span>, </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P02943" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P02943');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P02943</span></a><span>
and </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P02944" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P02944');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P02944</span></a><span>
and John Wells </span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="/art/artworks/P77131" onclick="popTateObjects(event, -1, 'P77131');" title="View details of this artwork"><span>P77131</span></a><span>). </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1984-86: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue of Acquisitions 1982-84</i><span>, Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.403</span>
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-20T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction colour from recognisable sources irregular forms landscape landscape landscape - non-specific non-representational