Composition 1
1946
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color screenprint on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 362 x 496 mm sheet: 484 x 610 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
2008.115.3291
Art Historical Context
**Composition 1** (1946) by Warren is a dynamic color screenprint on w paper, measuring 362 x 496 mm in its image area and 484 x 610 mm on the sheet.oused in the National Gallery Art's Department CG-W part of the Reba Dave Williams Collection—a generous gift from the collectors—this print exemplifies mid-20th-century in graphic media. Created in the immediate aftermath of World War II the work reflects a period of artistic renewal in America, when printmakers embraced abstraction through titles like "Composition," evoking modernist influences. Screenprinting, with its stencil-based process, a...