Floor 5: 5th Floor City Gallery: QR Code 511
Overview
Objects
2 objects in the order you'll encounter them from this entrance. Select an object to view details.
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1982
Etchings and aquatints, ed.15/25
The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Acquired by the Fisher family, 1988
Visual Description
A 20.9 × 20.9 inch aquatint-and-etching presents twenty-four small geometric solids arranged in a 6-by-4 grid. Every unit depicts a blocklike form—mostly cubes, rectangular prisms, and truncated or stepped variations—rendered with crisp edges and tonal gradients that shift from near-white to deep charcoal. Several shapes are simple, single solids (a cube, a wedge, a tall rectangular block), while others are compound constructions with cutouts, inset cubes, or stacked steps that form L-shapes and interlocking volumes. Faint, thin lines appear around many figures, lightly sketched in pale gray. Across the grid, the lighting direction varies: some faces are brightly lit, others fall into midtone, and a few planes drop into nearly black shadow.
Label Text
1982
Screenprints, ed.18/25
The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Acquired by the Fisher family, 1988
Visual Description
Nine screenprints, each a square about 22 × 22 inches, are arranged in a 3-by-3 grid, each with a white margin framing a dark, subtly striped field in charcoal and deep brown. Within each dark square, a single geometric figure is drawn in a thin, pale outline, usually centered and set off by a faint change in the direction of the line texture inside the shape compared to the surrounding ground.
Across the top row (left to right), the shapes are: a square; a circle; a triangle; a tall, narrow vertical rectangle; and a trapezoid with a narrower top and wider base. The middle row (left to right) shows: a slanted parallelogram; a right triangle with its long diagonal running from upper left down to lower right; an “X” formed by two thick, angled bars crossing; and a stepped, symmetrical cross-like form with squared protrusions. The bottom-right print differs from the others: instead of one large centered shape, it contains a 3-by-3 arrangement of smaller dark squares, each holding one of the same outlined shapes.