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Cecily Brown



Cecily Brown (b. 1969)
Rose Tavern, The Arrest, and Chairing the Member, 2004
Etchings
Each plate: 8 ¾ × 11 ¾ inches
Each sheet: 16 ½ × 19 inches
Printed and published by Two Palms, NY
Edition: 12
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Courtesy the artist and Two Palms, NY. © 2020 Cecily Brown
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Cecily Brown’s practice as a painter and printmaker is grounded in investigating the works of modern and historical masters, copying and deconstructing their images repeatedly as a method to guide close looking, formal inquiry, and revelation. In this rare group of etchings, Brown responds to works by the 18th century English printer, painter, and social critic William Hogarth. Brown mines Horgarth’s complex scenes of crowds: Rose Tavern and The Arrest are based on Hogarth’s cycle of engravings A Rake’s Progress; while Chairing the Member transforms a print from Four Humors of an Election. In Brown’s plates, Hogarth’s tight, theatrical compositions become approximations of space and form lingering between figuration and abstraction, nonetheless capturing the debauchery, conflict, and humor of the original moral narratives.
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Jennifer Farrell,
Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
One of the reasons I love Hogarth is those figures all cram together. You know—that condensed, pushed-together energy.
— CECILY BROWN, in conversation with Jason Rosenfield


William Hogarth
Tavern Scene, Plate III:
A Rake’s Progress, 1735
Etching and engraving
Plate: 14 × 16 ¼ inches
Sheet: 13 ⅞ x 15 ⅞ inches
Photos: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Creative Commons.
William Hogarth
The Arrest, Plate IV:
A Rake’s Progress, 1735
Etching and engraving
Plate: 14 × 16 ¼ inches
Sheet: 13 ⅞ x 15 ⅞ inches
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William Hogarth
Chairing the Members, Plate IV:
Four Humours of an Election, 1758
Etching and engraving
Sheet: 16 ½ x 22 inches
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