Artwork of the Week!! Sun, Oct 8, 2023 is by Worden Day (1912-1986): "Being and Becoming 1a", original color drawing, ca 1970.

The Artwork of the Week!! Sunday, October 8, 2023 is by Atelier 17 printmaker Worden Day (1912-1986). ?

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"Being and Becoming 1a" is a drawing, done using graphite and colored pencils around 1970 by Atelier 17 artist Worden Day (1922-1991). The image measures 7-11/16 x 25 inches and is pencil signed by the artist in the lower right image. It was drawn by the artist on a white wove onionskin paper that measures 12 x 28-1/4 inches. Our inventory number for this work is 12847.

This abstract color drawing by woman artist Worden Day (1912-1986) is available from the gallery.

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Wordon Day focused much of her artistic attention to contemplative subjects that included landscape, abstractions, calligraphy and the cosmos itself. This drawing, titled "Being and Becoming 1a" is probably from a series of ideas she was working on in the 1970s.

The concept of Being and Becoming is defined by The Metaphysicist as an: "Information philosophy [which] greatly simplifies the classic dichotomy between 'Being' and 'Becoming' that has bothered metaphysicians from Parmenides, Plato, and Aristotle to Martin Heidegger.

"'Being' is part of the essential nature of some abstract entities. They are ideas that exist in the immaterial realm of pure information and do not change. 'Becoming' is the essential nature of concrete material objects, which are always changing."

Day arranged the composition as a grid, drawn in graphite, with each unit being individually colored with color pencil. The overall image might viewed be a landscape, reclining figure, or just an abstraction in which each individual square has its own identity and yet is an important element to the whole.

Day studied at Atelier 17 in New York in the early 1940s. Information on her unusual methods of printing her early woodcuts can be found in 'A Spectrum of Innovation...' by David Acton, page 190.

Day was born in 1916 in Columbus, Ohio. She earned her B.A. at eighteen years of age from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1934. She moved to New York City where she studied with George Grosz, Jean Charlot and Hans Hofmann. Day also studied at the New School of Social Research, the Florence Crane School, and the Art Students' League with artists Maurice Sterne and Emilio Amero. She worked at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 in 1943, and in 1966 she received her M.A. degree from New York University at the age of fifty.

Worden Day taught at the Pratt Institute, the New School of Social Research, the Art Students' League and the University of Wyoming at Laramie. She was honored with J. Rosenwald Awards and two Guggenheim fellowships. Her work is represented in the collections of Library of Congress, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Worcester Art Museum, to name a few.

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