Season's Greeting Card 1946

Sue Fuller made this Season’s Greeting Card in 1946, and right away, you can see it’s about layering, both in terms of how it was made and how we see it. She uses a limited palette of red, green, and black, but look at how much she gets out of those colors! The texture is key. Because it's an etching, the lines have this etched, kind of prickly feel. Look at the bird's wing. It's not just an area of dark, but a whole collection of little marks that come together to make something bigger. It’s like she’s building the image piece by piece. This reminds me of Picasso, actually—that cubist idea of seeing something from multiple angles at once. Is it a holiday card? Is it an ornithological study? It's both, and that’s what makes it so interesting. It’s a reminder that art is never just one thing; it’s always a conversation, an exploration, a question.