Abstraction, Belief, Desire [working proof 12 for panel C]
1981
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aquatint, hardground, softground, spit bite, drypoint on Arches paper (Panel C WP12 –hard ground and sugar lift in dark brick red, and teal blue, soap ground in mint green, coral pink, yellow, aquatint in dark brick red to lighter red)
Dimensions
20 x 37 in.
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2024.132.667
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...