Hanging in Chains
1969-1970
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View on museum website →Medium
color screenprint and photo-screenprint on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 47.8 x 28.5 cm (18 13/16 x 11 1/4 in.) sheet: 77.7 x 57 cm (30 9/16 x 22 7/16 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Collectors Committee
Accession Number
1996.23.47
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...