Basket, Table, Door, Window, Mirror, Rug [verso]
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View on museum website →Medium
pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 22.6 × 32.3 cm (8 7/8 × 12 11/16 in.) sheet: 19.9 × 29.5 cm (7 13/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Gift of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
Accession Number
1991.241.24.b
Art Historical Context
Richard Artschwager's *Basket, Table, Door Window, Mirror, Rugverso]* (1974) invites visitors into the intimate world of a preparatory drawing, executed in pen and black ink over on wove paper. 22.6 × 32.3 cm overall, modestly scaled work—viewable on its verso side—lists an ensemble of everyday domestic objects in its evocative title, suggesting a quiet meditation on the familiar furnishings of home life. Artschwager, active in New York's vibrant 1960s and 1970s art scene, blurred the lines between painting, sculpture, and representation, often rendering ordinary items with stark, flattened p...
About the Artist
Richard Artschwager
Richard Artschwager (1923–2013) was a singular American artist whose sculptures, paintings, and installations blurred the lines between everyday objects and high art, evoking associations with Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism. Born in Washington, D.C., to a Prussian botanist father and a Ukrainian-Jewish mother who instilled in him a love of art through her own studies at the Corcoran School...