Nightmist and Rising Moon
Karl Schrag
1987
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View on museum website →Medium
color etching on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 10.1 x 15 cm (4 x 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 18.4 x 24 cm (7 1/4 x 9 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen
Accession Number
2005.145.26
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...