Field #1
1973
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color lithograph
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.254
Art Historical Context
**Field #1 by George Bunker (1973)** Visitors to the National Gallery of Art will find *Field #1*, a vibrant color lithograph created by American artist George Bunker in 1973, housed in the esteemed Rosenwald Collection (Department CG-W). This print exemplifies the democratic spirit of mid-20th-century printmaking, allowing artists to produce multiples of intricate, colorful works for broader audiences. Bunker's piece, classified simply as a print, captures experimental energy of the era, when lithography evolved into a favored medium for exploring abstraction and color dynamics. Color litho...
About the Artist
George Bunker
George Raymond Bunker (1923–1991) was an American painter and educator whose deeply felt engagement with landscape placed him in a tradition stretching from Cézanne's Provençal motifs to the meditative abstraction of mid-twentieth-century American art. Born in 1923, Bunker built a distinguished career as both an artist and an institution builder, holding high academic positions at two important ar...