Joan Sonnenberg (American, born 1930), Metaphysical Transluscence

Etching and aquatint in colors with metallic elements, pencil signed, titled, and marked as artist's proof, unframed.

Platemark 23 3/4 x 35 3/4 in.; Sheet size 27 3/4 x 39 1/4 in.

From the Collection of Duke Hospital, Sold to Benefit Duke Arts and Health

"Born 1930 in Chester, Pennsylvania, Joan Brechin Sonnenberg received a youth scholarship to study at the Carnegie Art Institute in Pittsburgh, PA. As a college student at the Carnegie Mellon University, Sonnenberg was staff cartoonist for Tartan, the campus newspaper. After graduation, she continued with independent studies in printmaking techniques.

Sonnenberg won two Best of Show awards in 1976, with both exhibitions at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. Sonnenberg’s work has been honored with 57 major awards in art exhibitions throughout the United States – Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., Ohio, North Carolina and Florida, with four solo exhibitions from 2004 to 2016. Jurors include internationally known artists Richard Anuszkiewicz and Faith Ringgold as well as art critics, museum curators and directors. Her large-scale etchings, paintings and murals have been included in eighteen major corporation collections in Japan, Brazil and throughout the U.S." - Arts and Health at Duke, Duke Hospital, Durham, North Carolina

A beautiful, vibrant impression; image in good condition; wear in margins including smudges, several nicks, and pinholes from hanging.