After Hours
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View on museum website →Medium
etching and aquatint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 45.4 × 60.64 cm (17 7/8 × 23 7/8 in.) sheet: 49.53 × 65.41 cm (19 1/2 × 25 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy
Accession Number
2017.148.26
Art Historical Context
**After Hours**, a captivating 1954 etching and aquint by American printmaker Billy Morrow Jackson, the moody allure of urban nightlife. Created on wove paper, this black-ink print measures a substantial plate size of 45.4 × 60.64 cm, allowing for intricate detail in its composition. Now housed in the National Gallery of Art as a generous gift from Bob Stana Tom Judy, it exemplifies mid-20th-century American printmaking's vitality during the post-World War II era, when artists explored everyday scenes with technical precision. Jackson masterfully employs etching for sharp, incisive lines—draw...