Artist Monograph

Joe Tilson, British

British, 1928–2023

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Screenprint	13	81.3%
Oil Painting	1	6.3%
Acrylic Painting	1	6.3%
Drawing	1	6.3%

Production by Decade

13

1960s

2

1970s

1

2010s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Medium (30–100 cm)	11	73.3%
Large (1–3 m)	4	26.7%

Range: 39.4 cm → 197.2 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1965	1
1966	3
1967	1
1968	3
1969	5
1987	1
2006	1
2015	1

British Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 16 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Lufbery and Rickenbacker from The Institute of Contemporary Arts Portfolio Print Acc. 627.1965	1963 (published 1964).	Screenprint	composition (irreg.): 27 5/16 × 19 1/2" (69.3 × 49.5 cm); sheet: 34 13/16 × 23 1/16" (88.4 × 58.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Purchase
P. C. From N. Y. C Print Acc. 433.1966	1965	Screenprint, printed in color on 2 sheets of paper and 1 sheet of filled Bristol board	(irreg.) composition 77 5/8 x 26 1/8" (197.2 x 66.3 cm) (irreg.) sheet 78 3/4 x 26 1/8" (200 x 66.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Joseph G. Mayer Foundation Fund
RAINBOW GRILL Print Acc. 432.1966	1965	Screenprint, printed in color on board with vacuum-filled polystyrene	Mount 31 7/16 x 31 1/2" (79.8 x 80.0 cm) Comp. 24 x 24 x 5/8" d. (61.0 x 61.0 x 1.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Joseph G. Mayer Foundation Fund
T-SHOT, DART, ZIGGURAT 3, ZIGGURAT 4, FREEWAY 2, TRIO Print Acc. 518.1967	(1965)	Screenprint in six sections, printed in color	Sheet 27 x 39 5/16" (68.6 x 99.8 cm)Each section 11 x 11" (28.0 x 28.0 cm)Total comp. 22 x 33" (55.8 x 83.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	S. Brooks Barron Fund
The 1/2 Ziggurat Print Acc. 566.1966	1965	Screenprint	composition: 22 11/16 × 33 1/8" (57.6 × 84.1 cm); sheet: 26 15/16 × 39 1/8" (68.4 × 99.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Adriane Reggie Fund
Ziggurat Drawing Acc. 26.1968	1966	Crayon and pencil on paper	23 x 36" (58.3 x 91.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	John S. Newberry Fund
ZIGGURAT 5 Print Acc. 1391.1968	1966	Screenprint, printed in color	Sheet 26 13/16 x 39 3/4" (68.1 x 101.0 cm) Comp. 16 9/16 x 30 3/4" (42.0 x 78.1 cm)(irreg.) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	S. Brooks Barron Fund
Diapositive, Clip-o-matic Lips Print Acc. 315.1969	1967	Screenprint on acetate on paper	Sheet 28 x 20 1/16" (71.1 x 51.0 cm) Comp. 26 3/4 x 19" (67.9 x 48.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	D.S. and R.H. Gottesman Foundation Fund
Diapositive, Empire State Building Print Acc. 294.1968	1967	Screenprint on acetate film, over color dispositive mounted on metallised acetate film, mounted on paper	composition (irreg.): 26 11/16 x 19 1/16" (67.8 x 48.4 cm); sheet: 28 1/16 x 20 1/16" (71.2 x 51 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, N.Y
Sky 3 Print Acc. 316.1969.a-b	(1967)	Screenprint with polyethylene bag containing three acrylic letters	Sheet: 38 1/2 x 23 7/8" (97.8 x 60.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	D.S. and R.H. Gottesman Foundation Fund
Cut Out and Send Print Acc. 314.1969	1968	Screenprint with screenprinted collage additions	composition (irreg.): 37 × 25 1/4" (94 × 64.2 cm); sheet: 40 1/8 × 27 1/16" (101.9 × 68.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	D.S. and R.H. Gottesman Foundation Fund
The Software Chart Print Acc. 317.1969	(1968)	Screenprint on lumaline on astrofoil and paper	Sheet (approx.): 24 1/4 x 48 5/8" (61.6 x 123.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	D.S. and R.H. Gottesman Foundation Fund
Is This Che Guevara? Print Acc. 922.1969	1969	Screenprint with collage additions	composition: 39 7/8 x 23 11/16" (101.3 x 60.2 cm); sheet: 39 3/4 x 26 15/16" (101 x 68.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Donald Karshan Fund
Ho Chi Minh Print Acc. 295.2006	1970	Screenprint with collage additions	composition: 39 5/8 x 24 7/16" (100.6 x 62 cm); sheet: 40 9/16 x 27 5/8" (103 x 70.2 cm) Other (irreg. object): 1 3/4 x 4 7/16 x 3/8" (4.4 x 11.2 x 1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Associates Fund
Earth Ritual from Homage to Picasso (Hommage à Picasso) Print Acc. 22.1987.43	1973	Screenprint from a portfolio of thirty-one lithographs (one with aquatint, one with collotype, one with screenprint), twenty-two screenprints (one with embossing, one with flocking, one with stencil), eleven etchings (five with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint, one with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving), three aquatints (one with etching), and two woodcuts	⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Dorothy Miller (by exchange)
For Alan, Venezia from Alan Cristea Gallery Twentieth Anniversary Portfolio Print Acc. 705.2015.18	2015	Aquatint from a portfolio of three aquatints (one with carborundum relief), one carborundum relief, one chromogenic print, three digital prints, four etchings (two with chine collé, one with embossing), one linoleum cut, one lithograph, three screenprints, two woodcuts, and two polymer gravures (one with woodcut)	composition: 15 7/16 × 15 1/2" (39.2 × 39.4 cm); sheet: 19 11/16 × 19 11/16" (50 × 50 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Alan Cristea Gallery, London, in honor of Alan Cristea