Night Sky 3 [special proof]
started 2002, published 2003
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View on museum website →Medium
photogravure, aquatint, and drypoint in black on Hahnemühle Copperplate wove paper [special proof]
Dimensions
plate: 37.15 × 47.31 cm (14 5/8 × 18 5/8 in.) sheet: 50.64 × 60.64 cm (19 15/16 × 23 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gemini G.E.L., LLC and the Artist
Accession Number
2015.23.13
About the Artist
Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins, born on October 25, 1938, in Riga, Latvia, endured a tumultuous early life marked by World War II displacement. Her family fled Soviet occupation, living in German refugee camps before immigrating to the United States in 1948 via sponsorship from a Lutheran church. Settling in Indianapolis, Indiana, where her father worked as a carpenter and her mother in a hospital laundry, young Vi...