Aviator
1971
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph with adhered photograph on Special Arjomari wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 40.6 x 40.6 cm (16 x 16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist
Accession Number
1990.27.37
About the Artist
R. B. Kitaj
Ronald Brooks Kitaj (1932–2007), known professionally as R. B. Kitaj, was an American-born painter who spent the greater part of his career in England and became one of the most intellectually ambitious figurative artists of the postwar era. Born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Kitaj led an itinerant early life that included a stint as a merchant seaman before he turned to formal art education. He studied...