Artwork copyright Robert Ecker. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Arrangement in Pink and Green, 1979

Robert Ecker
American (born 1936)

Location: Green Hill School, Chehalis

About the Artwork

Arrangement in Pink and Green is part of artist Robert Ecker's "Thirty Mezzotints" series of still life prints. The series explores the subtle symbolism of everyday objects. He composed these small-scale prints by marking a copper plate with a toothed tool called a rocker. The rocker creates the textured patterns characteristic of this form of printmaking. After the image has been marked into the copper plate, it is loaded with ink and transferred to paper.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Department of Children, Youth, and Families.

About the Artist

Robert Ecker creates still-life and landscape paintings and prints that explore formal relationships and symbolism with rich detail and subtle wit. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Pennsylvania State University. He taught art at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1972 to 2001.