Summary
Desert is one of a set of four lithographs Celmins made from pencil drawings of a day sky (Sky Tate P78334), a night sky (Galaxy Tate P78335) and the surface of an area of sea (Ocean Tate P78336). The lithographs were produced in an edition of seventy-five, of which Tate’s copies are the artist’s proofs. The set was printed by the Cirrus Press, Los Angeles and published by the artist.
Celmins was born in Riga, Latvia. In 1944, fleeing the advancing Soviet army, her family settled in Germany before emigrating to the United States in 1949. She grew up in Indianapolis, where she attended the John Heron Art Institute (graduated 1962), and then moved to Venice, California where she completed a Masters Degree in Painting at the University of California in Los Angeles (1965). She relocated to New York in 1981… (read more)
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