Doric Columns
1945
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View on museum website →Medium
wood engraving on japan paper
Dimensions
image: 32.07 × 24.13 cm (12 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.) sheet: 36.51 × 28.58 cm (14 3/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Cornelius S. Roosevelt Collection, by exchange
Accession Number
2016.156.1
About the Artist
M.C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) was a Dutch graphic artist renowned for his mathematically-inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints featuring impossible constructions, tessellations, and explorations of infinity. Though he considered himself lacking in mathematical ability, Escher's work demonstrates profound intuitive understanding of geometry, symmetry, and spatial paradox. A transform...