Final: City of Burbank, California, Annual Budget 1968-1969
1969-1970
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View on museum website →Medium
color photo-screenprint on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 49.8 x 38.4 cm (19 5/8 x 15 1/8 in.) sheet: 78 x 57.1 cm (30 11/16 x 22 1/2 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Collectors Committee
Accession Number
1996.23.40
Art Historical Context
R.B. Kitaj's *Final: City of Burb, California, Annual Budget 1968-1969* (1969–1970), now housed in the National Gallery Art as a gift from the Collectors Committee, transforms an ordinary municipal document into a striking work of art. Created during a turbulent era of social change in late-1960s America, this piece from the CG-W department's portfolio classification reproduces the City of Burbank's fiscal blueprint for 1968–1969, highlighting the bureaucratic machinery behind everyday governance. Printed as a color photo-screenprint on wove paper—measuring 49.8 x 38.4 cm for the image and 78...
About the Artist
R. B. Kitaj
Ronald Brooks Kitaj (1932–2007), known professionally as R. B. Kitaj, was an American-born painter who spent the greater part of his career in England and became one of the most intellectually ambitious figurative artists of the postwar era. Born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Kitaj led an itinerant early life that included a stint as a merchant seaman before he turned to formal art education. He studied...