Garden - After Ingres
1972
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lithograph
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of June Wayne
Accession Number
1974.99.112
Art Historical Context
**Garden - After Ingres**1972) is a striking lithograph by American artist Leonard Lehrer, now housed in the National Gallery Art's Department of Modern Prints (CG-W). as a thoughtful homage—"after Ingres"—to the 19th-century French Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, print evokes the Neoclassical artist's renowned precision, elegant lines, and classical themes. Lehrer channels Ingres' meticulous draftsmanship through the fluid yet controlled medium of lithography, a technique that allows for subtle tonal gradations and rich textures by drawing on a stone or metal plate with greasy crayon or ink. ...
About the Artist
Leonard Lehrer
Leonard Lehrer is an American artist whose work spans printmaking, drawing, and painting, with a career that has unfolded largely within the academic and studio art communities of the United States. While precise biographical dates are not widely documented in major reference sources, Lehrer is known as a serious practitioner of works on paper, a medium he has explored with sustained commitment an...