Mixed Marks, ARC
2004
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View on museum website →Medium
color waterbite and sugarlift aquatint on wove Somerset paper
Dimensions
plate: 50.4 x 50.4 cm (19 13/16 x 19 13/16 in.) sheet: 73.5 x 70.5 cm (28 15/16 x 27 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2006.122.124
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...