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Mary Heilmann

Color aquatint with soap ground and spit bite aquatints on wove paper

National Gallery of Art

This vibrant color aquatint features Mary Heilmann's signature bold colors and deceptively casual geometric forms, created using soap ground and spit bite aquatint techniques at the renowned Crown Point Press in San Francisco. Heilmann, born in 1940 in San Francisco, grew up surrounded by California surf culture and counterculture movements before earning degrees in literature and ceramics, eventually turning to painting in New York where she became one of the most influential abstract artists of her generation. Her work bridges spontaneous gestural abstraction with rigorous minimalist geometries, making this print a captivating conversation piece that brings warmth and artistic sophistication to any contemporary living space.