Artist Monograph

Joyce Sills, American

American, born 1940

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	12	92.3%
Medium (30–100 cm)	1	7.7%

Range: 5.1 cm → 33.2 cm (largest side)

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 13 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
BLACK WIDOWS, FEMALE & MALE (plate, folio 5) from SOME ARACHNIDS Illustrated Book Acc. 371.1963.5	1961	Soft ground etching, printed in black	plate 5 7/8 x 5 1/2" (15 x 13.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Headpiece (colophon) from SOME ARACHNIDS Illustrated Book Acc. 371.1963.12	1961	Etching, printed in black	plate 2 x 1 15/16" (5.1 x 4.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
LIMULUS (plate, folio 9) from SOME ARACHNIDS Illustrated Book Acc. 371.1963.9	1961	Soft ground etching, printed in color	plate 8 1/16 x 4 15/16" (20.5 x 12.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
MITE (plate, folio 6) from SOME ARACHNIDS Illustrated Book Acc. 371.1963.6	1961	Soft ground etching, printed in black	plate 5 1/2 x 5 13/16" (13.9 x 14.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
SCORPION (plate, folio 7) from SOME ARACHNIDS Illustrated Book Acc. 371.1963.7	1961	Etching, printed in black	plate 4 15/16 x 7 15/16" (12.6 x 20.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Some Arachnids Illustrated Book Acc. 371.1963.1-12	1961	Illustrated book with 12 etchings (including title page and colophon)	irreg. page 9 5/8 x 13 1/16" (24 x 33.2 cm) Prints: various dimensions. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
SPIDER MOULTING (plate, folio 3) from SOME ARACHNIDS Illustrated Book Acc. 371.1963.3	1961	Etching, printed in black	plate 5 7/8 x 5 7/8" (15 x 15 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
SPIDER ON ITS BACK (plate, folio 11) from SOME ARACHNIDS Illustrated Book Acc. 371.1963.11	1961	Soft ground etching, printed in black	plate 5 15/16 x 8 13/16" (15.1 x 22.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
TARANTULA (plate, folio 10) from SOME ARACHNIDS Illustrated Book Acc. 371.1963.10	1961	Etching, printed in black	plate 2 15/16 x 3 15/16" (7.6 x 10 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
TARANTULA IN PROFILE (plate, folio 4) from SOME ARACHNIDS Illustrated Book Acc. 371.1963.4	1961	Etching, printed in black	plate 2 7/16 x 6 15/16" (6.2 x 17.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
TARANTULA ON THE DEFENSIVE (plate, folio 8) from SOME ARACHNIDS Illustrated Book Acc. 371.1963.8	1961	Soft ground etching, printed in black	plate 5 15/16 x 8 7/8" (15.2 x 22.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
Title page from SOME ARACHNIDS Illustrated Book Acc. 371.1963.1	1961	Etching, printed in black	plate 2 1/8 x 1" (5.4 x 2.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund
TWO TARANTULAS FIGHTING (plate, folio 2) from SOME ARACHNIDS Illustrated Book Acc. 371.1963.2	1961	Soft ground etching, printed in black	plate 4 x 6 13/16" (10.2 x 17.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund