Dusk in August

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Medium

lithograph in black with embossing on wove brown paper

Dimensions

sheet: 43.18 × 56.52 cm (17 × 22 1/4 in.)

Classification

Portfolio

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of the Collectors Committee

Accession Number

2000.137.1.7

About the Artist

Louise Nevelson

Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) was a Ukrainian-born American sculptor who became one of the most prominent figures in twentieth-century American art, renowned for her monumental wooden wall sculptures. Born Leah Berliawsky in Pereiaslav, Russian Empire (now Ukraine), she emigrated with her family to Rockland, Maine, in 1905 and moved to New York City in 1920, where she studied at the Art Students Lea...

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