Friends
1950s
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View on museum website →Medium
engraving in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 21.27 × 18.89 cm (8 3/8 × 7 7/16 in.) sheet: 32.86 × 29.21 cm (12 15/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)
Accession Number
2015.19.1389
Art Historical Context
**Friends** by Carl M. Schheiss, created in the 1950s, captures a moment of camaraderie through the precise art of engraving. This intimate print, executed in black ink on smooth wove paper, measures a modest plate size of 21.27 × 18.89 cm, inviting close viewing to appreciate its fine lines and textures. As part of the National Gallery of Art's Corcoran—bequeathed by Frank B.istow—it reflects mid-20th-century American printmaking traditions during a postwar era of artistic innovation and personal expression. Engraving, an intaglio technique, involves incising designs directly into a metal pl...