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Aeroscape

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Medium

etching and aquatint

Dimensions

plate: 124 x 98 mm sheet: 194 x 165 mm

Classification

Print

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams

Accession Number

2008.115.2345

Art Historical Context

**Aeroscape** by Hanh Harari, created in 1938, viewers into a dynamic aerial perspective through the intimate medium of etching and aquatint This small print—measuring just 124 x 98 mm on the—captures the artist's modernist vision during a time when aviation was capturing the public imagination, just a decade after Charles Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight. Harari, an American printmaker known for his innovative urban scenes, uses the title *Aeroscape* to evoke bird's-eye views of landscapes transformed by height and speed. The technique shines here: etching provides crisp, incisive l...

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