Merging Clouds and Mountains
1956
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View on museum website →Medium
etching and aquatint in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 37.8 x 60.6 cm (14 7/8 x 23 7/8 in.) sheet: 44.5 x 67.6 cm (17 1/2 x 26 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.1260
About the Artist
Karl Schrag
Karl Schrag (1912–1995) was a German-born American painter and printmaker whose richly expressive work occupied a distinctive space between abstraction and a deeply felt response to the natural world. Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, he studied in Geneva, Paris, and at the École des Beaux-Arts, immersing himself in the currents of European modernism before the rise of National Socialism forced him, lik...