Dancing Flower
1956
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View on museum website →Medium
woodcut on Japanese paper
Dimensions
image: 18.6 × 20.1 cm (7 5/16 × 7 15/16 in.) sheet: 31.7 × 30.2 cm (12 1/2 × 11 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Bob Stana and Tom Judy
Accession Number
2020.168.14
About the Artist
Karl Schrag
Karl Schrag (1912–1995) was a German-born American painter and printmaker whose richly expressive work occupied a distinctive space between abstraction and a deeply felt response to the natural world. Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, he studied in Geneva, Paris, and at the École des Beaux-Arts, immersing himself in the currents of European modernism before the rise of National Socialism forced him, lik...