The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 26, 2024

Rainbow Love Mountain Ranch, New Mexico

Rainbow Love Mountain Ranch, New Mexico

2007
(American, b. 1955)
Sheet: 92.9 x 66.2 cm (36 9/16 x 26 1/16 in.); Image: 90.1 x 65 cm (35 1/2 x 25 9/16 in.)
© Polly Apfelbaum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Catalogue raisonné: Tamarind 07-308
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

In addition to prints, Polly Apfelbaum has created large-scale installations that feature patterned flowers such as those seen here.

Description

This print exemplifies Polly Apfelbaum’s interest in bright, saturated colors and repeated patterns. The artist finds inspiration in popular culture, using simple forms that draw from a wide range of sources—here, typographical characters called dingbats. The work’s title refers to a road sign that Apfelbaum repeatedly passed while she was working at the Tamarind Institute, a lithographic print shop in New Mexico. There, she used a rainbow roll—an ink roller with multiple blended colors—to produce the print’s vivid tonality.
  • ?-2012
    (Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM, sold to the Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH)
    2012
    Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    2012-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-September 22, 2019).
    Fresh Prints: The Nineties to Now. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 22-July 26, 2015).
  • {{cite web|title=Rainbow Love Mountain Ranch, New Mexico|url=false|author=Polly Apfelbaum, The Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico|year=2007|access-date=26 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2012.466