Christ Calming the Storm (after Ensor)
1984
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View on museum website →Medium
charcoal, graphite, and opaque watercolor with scraping and rubbing on wove paper
Dimensions
framed: 161.29 × 251.46 × 5.08 cm (63 1/2 × 99 × 2 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Lenore S. and Bernard Greenberg
Accession Number
2022.34.10
About the Artist
Pat Steir
Pat Steir, born Iris Patricia Sukoneck on April 10, 1938, in Newark, New Jersey, to a Russian-Jewish immigrant family, knew from age five that she wanted to be an artist or poet. The eldest daughter of a father who worked in art-adjacent trades like silk-screening and neon sign design, she frequented the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a child. Steir studied at Pratt Institute from 1956 to 1958, the...