(Image 6)
1978
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View on museum website →Medium
color aquatint, hard and softground etching, drypoint, spitbite and liftground etching on Arches Satine paper
Dimensions
plate: 30.2 x 30.2 cm (11 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.) sheet: 40.6 x 40.6 cm (16 x 16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2001.142.94.6
Art Historical Context
**Image 6** by Pat Steir (8) is a striking square-format print from the National Gallery Art's collection, generously gifted by printer and publisher Kathan Brown. Created during a vibrant period of American printmaking revival in the late 1970s, this work showcases Steir's early mastery as a printmaker. Born in 1940, Steir in New York's dynamic art scene, blending influences from abstract expressionism with experimental techniques to evoke fluidity and chance. The medium—a complex layering of color aquatint, hard- and softground etching, drypoint, spitbite, and liftground etching on fine Arc...
About the Artist
Pat Steir
Pat Steir, born Iris Patricia Sukoneck on April 10, 1938, in Newark, New Jersey, to a Russian-Jewish immigrant family, knew from age five that she wanted to be an artist or poet. The eldest daughter of a father who worked in art-adjacent trades like silk-screening and neon sign design, she frequented the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a child. Steir studied at Pratt Institute from 1956 to 1958, the...