Audience
1943
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screenprint
Dimensions
Image: 308 x 414 mm Sheet: 425 x 525 mm
Classification
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
2008.115.2050
Art Historical Context
**Audience** by Ruth Gikow is a striking screenprint from 1943, measuring 308 x 414 mm on a sheet of 425 x 525 mm. Created during the height of World War II, work belongs to the National Gallery of's Reba and Dave Collection, a generous gift that highlights mid-20th-century printmaking. As a classified print in the CG-W department, it exemplifies the era's embrace of graphic arts for broad dissemination. Screenprinting, Gikow's chosen medium, was a revolutionary technique in the 1930s and 1940s—stenciling ink through mesh to produce bold, vibrant images affordably. Popularized by the Works Pr...