Abstraction, Belief, Desire
1981
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View on museum website →Medium
aquatint, hard and softground etching, and drypoint on Arches 88 paper
Dimensions
plate: 91.2 x 140.3 cm (35 7/8 x 55 1/4 in.) sheet: 108.3 x 155.9 cm (42 5/8 x 61 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
1997.8.208
About the Artist
Pat Steir
Pat Steir, born Iris Patricia Sukoneck on April 10, 1938, in Newark, New Jersey, to a Russian-Jewish immigrant family, knew from age five that she wanted to be an artist or poet. The eldest daughter of a father who worked in art-adjacent trades like silk-screening and neon sign design, she frequented the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a child. Steir studied at Pratt Institute from 1956 to 1958, the...