Figure
1970
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph (zinc and stone) in green, black, orange and violet on Rives BFK paper
Dimensions
sheet: 60.9 x 45.9 cm (24 x 18 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dorothy J. and Benjamin B. Smith
Accession Number
1984.34.1167
About the Artist
Emerson Woelffer
Emerson Woelffer (1914–2003) was an American abstract painter whose long career placed him at the intersection of Abstract Expressionism and a more lyrical, Mediterranean-inflected modernism. Born in Chicago, he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he later taught, and subsequently received a fellowship from the Institute of Design — the Chicago Bauhaus — where contact with...