Art, literature & historySixth Stone II
1964
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Lithograph from five stones in black, brown, ocher, white, and red ink on tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 92 × 70 cm (36 1/4 × 27 9/16 in.); Sheet: 120.8 × 82.5 cm (47 9/16 × 32 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1982.99
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Sixth Stone II — Lee Bontecou. 1964.
Medium: Lithograph from five stones in black, brown, ocher, white, and red ink on tan wove paper. Dimensions: Image: 92 × 70 cm (36 1/4 × 27 9/16 in.); Sheet: 120.8 × 82.5 cm (47 9/16 × 32 1/2 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Closely related to Fifth Stone , Sixth Stone I, II , and III are largely variations on the same image. They differ only in the number of stones used (printed in black, brown, ocher, red, and white) and the type of surface these are printed on (two on paper, one on muslin). These were Bontecou’s first fully colored prints.
Description: © Art Institute of Chicago, original record, CC BY 4.0. HTML formatting removed; wording retained. Other artwork metadata: CC0.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.