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Ynez Johnston
Travels with the Sage Naradacirca 1970s

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Vertical lithograph with gestural black line drawing, mustard yellow and slate blue color fields, and a handwritten numbered list under the heading 'CONTENTS'
Mixed-media work on paper in muted purples, grays, and ochres, with dense freehand linework forming fragmented architectural and figurative shapes. Handwritten yellow text at upper left reads "THE AUSTERE ONES" followed by several lines of verse. Scratchy black lines and gestural marks cover the surface throughout.
Etching and aquatint cover page in warm ochres, browns, and dark olive greens, depicting a layered landscape with sketchy buildings and foliage beneath a dark sky. Handwritten-style text reads "Travels of the Sage Narada" at center, with smaller text along the lower edge reading "Fourteen etchings by Ynez Johnston with poems by John Berry."
Mixed-media work on paper with warm ochre and rust-brown tones, densely covered in handwritten text and gestural line drawings. The word "ODYSSEIAS" appears at the top; loose sketched figures and boat-like forms emerge from layered washes below scattered poetic passages.
Mixed-media work combining gestural drawing and collage on a blue-gray ground, with abstract and semi-figurative forms in black, ochre, and rust. The word "MOHENJODARO" appears in the upper left; a column of handwritten English verse fills the right side on a yellowed paper element. Layered architectural and figure-like shapes are rendered in loose, scratchy linework throughout.
Mixed-media painting with layered earthy greens, blacks, and muted reds. Handwritten text in a central rectangle reads "Two herons white in a blue field. One stalks about, one sits on the ground. My mother believes that the one who is still has an internal wound." Title text "Landscape with Figures" appears near the top. Surrounding areas filled with gestural black crayon marks, schematic figures, zigzag lines, and roughly painted landscape forms.
Mixed-media composition combining dense handwritten and printed text on aged, torn paper fragments layered against a dark background, with small figurative drawings and scenes in ochre, pink, and black along the upper edges.
Mixed-media painting with dark upper section bearing handwritten text in red and white, including the phrase "TO AN UNFORGIVING BASTARD," above a densely worked abstract landscape in earthy reds, oranges, and blacks with gestural marks and indistinct figures.
Mixed-media painting on a speckled cream ground with hand-lettered text reading "THE GOLDFINCH MOTIF" at top, followed by verses in capital letters. Rough black border frames the composition. Schematic figures, bare tree branches in brown and orange, and small narrative scenes in earth tones and black are scattered throughout the right side and lower portion.
Mixed-media print with dark, gestural marks on a mottled white ground. Hand-lettered text reading 'THE RED SEA' appears at top, with a dense block of partially legible verse below. Schematic figures, buildings, and sailing vessels rendered in black, ochre, and orange are scattered throughout, with a row of ships along the bottom edge.
Mixed-media work on paper with dense layered surfaces in black, brown, ochre, and olive tones. The word "PHOTO" appears in block letters at upper right, beside handwritten text reading "This is my child, this is my wife..." Small schematic figures, hatched marks, and amorphous stacked forms fill the composition.
Intaglio print with heavily worked, textured surface in rust-red, dark brown, and cream tones. A dark central form contains handwritten text reading "FOG, TAIWAN / TWO WARM PERSONS HEAR / SEA-HORNS." Loosely scratched figures and abstract marks fill the lower portion.
Mixed-media print with dense, gestural imagery in black, purple, ochre, and green. A large white hand-like form dominates the center, surrounded by chaotic abstract marks, fragmented architectural shapes, and organic forms. Handwritten text in multiple columns fills the lower third of the composition.
Mixed-media painting with loose gestural brushwork in black, purple, orange, and pink, overlaid with handwritten and printed text fragments including "SALAAN TO KRISHNA FLUTING" at top and prose passages below, layered over sketched architectural forms and figures.
Color relief print with dense, layered imagery in dark greens, purples, and ochres depicting abstracted figures, architectural forms, and landscape elements above four lines of hand-lettered text reading: "I touched the beautiful blue nodule of sleep / The sapphire handle on the trapdoor / in the ocean floor / so far down, how many can sink there? / Merely to touch it is to enter."
Color woodblock print with dense, layered composition combining schematic figures, architectural forms, and handwritten text blocks in English against a mottled gray ground. Yellow, ochre, dark red, and green shapes suggest figures and structures scattered across the surface. Title text "Travels of the Sage Narada" appears at top; a rectangular block of cursive text occupies the upper left quadrant.
Artist or Maker
Ynez Johnston
Title
Travels with the Sage Narada
Place Made
United States
Date Made
circa 1970s
Medium
16 etchings in a wooden box
Dimensions
closed: 23 × 18 1/8 × 1 in. (58.42 × 46.04 × 2.54 cm) opened: 23 × 36 1/8 × 1 1/2 in. (58.42 × 91.76 × 3.81 cm) Sheet (each): 19 1/2 × 15 7/8 in. (49.53 × 40.32 cm) Image (each): 12 × 8 7/8 in. (30.48 × 22.54 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of June Wayne in memory of Bruce Davis
Accession Number
M.2000.175.1.1-.16
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings