I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside, from Façade: In Homage to Edith Sitwell

Louis Nevelson was a sculptor and printmaker. Born in Kyiv, she immigrated to the United States as a child with her family. As a young woman Nevelson moved to New York, where she studied at the Art Students League. Nevelson experimented with form and monumentality in sculptural assemblages, and in 1947, began exploring printmaking as an alternate channel of artistic expression. “I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside,” is a photo-screen print, the composition of which is printed in separate parts on paper and acetate. Featuring images of Nevelson’s own found-wood assemblages, the two components generate a sense of dimensionality when layered together. Created at Chiron Press in New York, the work is from an album of twelve screen prints dedicated to the British poet Edith Sitwell. The prints allude to Nevelson’s favorite poems from Sitwell’s book of abstract poems titled “Façade.”