A Young Woman in a Raincoat
1978
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View on museum website →Medium
drypoint on Arches Satine heavyweight paper
Dimensions
image: 4.8 x 4.1 cm (1 7/8 x 1 5/8 in.) sheet: 37.5 x 28.6 cm (14 3/4 x 11 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2001.142.35
About the Artist
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin (1933–1996) was an American minimalist artist known exclusively for his sculptures and installations made from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. Born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, he studied art history at Columbia University and attended the Hans Hofmann School before beginning his artistic career in the early 1960s. Flavin's breakthrough came in 1963 with "the diagon...