Meandering River I
1990
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softground etching and aquatint in red on Somerset Textured paper
Dimensions
sheet: 32.4 x 27 cm (12 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.) image: 20 x 15.2 cm (7 7/8 x 6 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
1998.40.132
Art Historical Context
**Meandering River I** by sculptor Tony Cragg, created in 1990 invites visitors into the artist's fascination with organic forms and natural processes. Cragg, a Turner Prize winner renowned for his abstract sculptures that twist and morph like living matter, translates his three-dimensional explorations into this intimate print. Measuring just 20 x 15.2 cm in its image area, the work on Somerset Textured paper evokes the serpentine flow of a river, blending his signature fluidity with the precision of printmaking. Crafted using softground etching and aquatint in vivid red ink, the piece showc...
About the Artist
Tony Cragg
Sir Tony Cragg (b. 1949) is a British sculptor whose career, spanning more than five decades, has traced a remarkable arc from early assemblages of found industrial materials to large-scale works of virtuosic formal invention in bronze, steel, glass, and wood. Born in Liverpool, Cragg worked as a laboratory technician for the British Rubber Producers Research Association before pursuing formal art...