Myth of Creation
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plaster print
Dimensions
overall: 24.9 × 20.2 cm (9 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1945.5.1325
Art Historical Context
**Myth of Creation**, a captivating plaster print by Stanley William Hayter from 1940, measures a intimate 24.9 × 20.2 cm and viewers into a world of primal origins. Created during the turbulent early years of World War II this work belongs to the National Gallery of's Rosenwald Collection, in the CG-E department and classified as a print. Hayter, a pioneering British printmaker (1901–1988), founded Atelier 17 in Paris in 1927, a collaborative studio that revolutionized modern printmaking through experimental techniques. The medium of plaster print highlights Hayter's innovative spirit, pushi...
About the Artist
Stanley William Hayter
Stanley William Hayter (1901–1988), born in Hackney, London, to painter and sign-maker William Harry Hayter, initially pursued a scientific career, earning a degree in chemistry and geology from King's College London. He worked as a research chemist for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Abadan, Iran, from 1922 to 1925, painting portraits of colleagues in his spare time; an exhibition of these upon ...