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BETYE SAAR (1926 - ) Lo, the Pensive Peninsula.
Etching printed in brown and black ink on cream wove paper, 1961. 380x500 mm; 15x19 inches, wide margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 9/20 in pencil, lower margin. Printed and published by the artist.
This extremely scarce etching is the first artwork that Betye Saar formally exhibited. The print (another impression) was included in her first group show at the Palos Verdes Library Gallery in 1961. This early print not only shows the very beginning of the artist's practice, but Saar's interest in the spiritualism found in landscape. Lo, the Pensive Peninsula dates from the final year of her graduate studies in experimental printmaking at California State University, Los Angeles.
Another impression is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and was included in the recent exhibition The Legends of Black Girl's Window, October 21, 2019 – January 4, 2020.
