Rosalyn Richards - prints and biography
American Printmaker at the Intersection of Science, Technology, and the Natural World
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Signed, titled, numbered.
ImageSize: 11.5 x 14 in.
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 11.88 x 5.88 inches
Edition of 15
Year: 2013
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image size: 13.18 × 11.88
Paper size: 23 in. x 19 in.
Edition: 12
Year: 2014
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 8 x 9.88 inches
Edition of 10
Year: 2021
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint on chine colle.
Image Size: 8.5 x 6.75 inches
Paper size: 19 in. x 14 ¾ in.
Edition Size: 15
Year: 2005
Signed, titled, numbered in pencil
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image Size: 13.875 × 11.875 inches
Year: 2025
Edition Size: 12
Signed, titled, numbered.
Fractured triangles and connective linework collide across the page, drawing on Richards' engagement with maps, charts, and diagrams — the visual language of science and technology reimagined as something more fragile and human.
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image : 11.88 x 9.88 inches
Edition: 15
Year: 2011
In Descent, Rosalyn Richards explores gravity, structure, and dissolution through a spare yet complex abstract composition. Layered etching and aquatint form a suspended, funnel-like geometry that appears to pull the surrounding marks inward, suggesting both physical descent and conceptual inquiry. Fine linear scaffolding intersects with atmospheric tonal fields, creating a tension between precision and entropy.
Executed in 2011 in a small edition of 11, this print reflects Richards’s interest in systems, mapping, and the visual language of measurement, while allowing chance textures and tonal drift to disrupt strict order. The result is a work that feels simultaneously analytical and poetic—an image of movement slowed, examined, and quietly unsettled.
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 11.75 x 17.75 inches
Edition of 10
Year: 2018
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image Size: 18 × 12 inches
Year: 2026
Edition Size: 10
Signed, titled, numbered.
a layered abstract composition that balances precision and spontaneity. Interlocking geometric forms—circles, triangles, arcs, and linear vectors—float across a softly textured ground, creating a visual field that suggests motion, collapse, and reassembly. Subtle ghosted impressions and granular passages introduce a sense of erosion, as though earlier structures remain faintly embedded beneath the surface.
Richards’s use of muted greens, charcoal blacks, and warm ochre accents establishes a restrained yet dynamic palette. The careful interplay between measured geometry and organic mark-making reflects the artist’s ongoing investigation into systems, instability, and transformation. Lines intersect, fragment, and reorient, evoking architectural diagrams, celestial mapping, or the residue of engineered forms breaking apart over time.
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 11.75 x 9.75 inches
Edition of 10
Year: 2014
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 11.88 x 11.75 inches
Edition of 10
Year: 2015
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Imagesize: 6.8 x 5.8 inches
Edition of 15
Year: 2012
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 11.75 x 9.88 inches
Edition of 15
Year: 2013
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 6.5 x 6 inches
Edition of 10
Year: 2008
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 11.75 x 8 inches
Edition of 15
Year: 2003
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint .
Signed, titled, numbered.
Image Size: 5.75 x 4.25
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 10 × 8 inches
Edition of 10
Year: 2022
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 12 × 9 inches
Edition of 10
Year: 2023
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Medium: Etching with aquatint on chine colle.
Signed, titled, numbered.
Image Size: 5.75 x 9 in.
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 14.875 x 10.875 inches
Edition of 12
Year: 2008
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Signed, titled, numbered.
ImageSize: 9.75 x 7.75
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Imagesize: 7 x 6 inches
Edition of 15
Year: 2011
In Continuum, Rosalyn Richards investigates accumulation, repetition, and the persistence of mark-making across time. Interlacing lines, arcs, and circular traces move across the surface like residual diagrams—suggesting measurement systems that have been repeatedly revised, erased, and re-inscribed. The warm tonal palette softens the density of marks, allowing structure and improvisation to coexist.
Executed as an etching and aquatint, the print reflects Richards’s sustained engagement with process and duration, where no single gesture dominates and meaning emerges through layering. Continuum reads less as a fixed image than as a record of ongoing activity—an abstract field shaped by rhythm, return, and gradual transformation.
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 11.75 x 11.75 inches
Edition of 10
Year: 2009
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 8 x 6 inches
Edition of 10
Year: 2009
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image size: 10 × 8
Edition: 10
Year: 2022
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 11.75 x 17.75 inches
Edition of 10
Year: 2016
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image size: 11.75 x 11.75 inches
Edition of 10
Year: 2009
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image Size: 18 x 12 inches
Year: 2009
Edition Size: 15
Signed, titled, numbered.
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image Size: 10.5 × 7 inches
Year: 2021
Edition Size: 15
Signed, titled, numbered.
Rosalyn Richards
Biography
Rosalyn Richards is an American artist and educator whose work explores the intersection of science, technology, and the natural world. She was a member of the art faculty at Bucknell University from 1982–2014, where she influenced generations of young artists while maintaining an active studio practice.
Richards draws inspiration from imagery found in physics, biotechnology, radiology, satellite photography, and geological surveys. Her paintings, prints, and drawings examine how technology mediates our perception of nature, often combining organic forms with the visual language of maps, charts, and diagrams.
Engagement with systems and structure is central to her work. Richards reconstructs and transforms these forms, incorporating elements of games and puzzles to create intricate visual environments that balance order and uncertainty, observation and imagination.
Richards has exhibited widely, and her work is held in numerous museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at UCLA, Brooklyn Museum, Portland Art Museum, and Ackland Art Museum.
Related artists working with structure, systems, and abstraction in printmaking:
Elise Wagner
Seiko Tachibana
Renaud Allirand
Mario Teleri Biason
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 9.75 x 7.75 inches
Edition of 20
Year: 2003
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image Size: 9.75 x 7.75
Signed, titled, numbered.
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 7.75 x 5.88 inches
Edition of 10
Year: 2018
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 7.88 x 5.75 inches
Edition of 10
Year: 2014
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 17.75 x 11.75 inches
Edition of 10
Year: 2017
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image: 4.25 x 6.5 inches
Edition of 15
Year: 2009
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Signed, titled, numbered.
Image Size: 10.75 x 7.5 in.
Edition Size: 15
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint on chine colle.
Signed, titled, numbered.
ImageSize: 6.6 x 5.5
By: Rosalyn Richards
Medium: Etching with aquatint
Image Size: 11.75 x 14.75 in.
Edition Size: 10
Signed, titled, numbered.
Year: 2005