Nude Woman with Arm Upraised
1930-1932
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View on museum website →Medium
color linocut on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 18.73 × 13.97 cm (7 3/8 × 5 1/2 in.) sheet: 15.24 × 6.99 cm (6 × 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jack and Margrit Vanderryn
Accession Number
1997.128.27
Art Historical Context
**Nude Woman with Arm Upraised** is a striking color linocut by Max Weber, created between 1930 and 1932. This intimate work, measuring just 18.73 × 13.97 cm, captures a graceful female figure in a dynamic pose, her arm raised, embodying the modernist fascination with the human form. Weber, a Russian-born American artist pivotal in early 20th-century modernism, drew from Cubist and Expressionist influences, distilling anatomy into bold, rhythmic lines and vibrant hues that evoke both sensuality and abstraction. Printed on laid paper using the linocut technique—a relief method where linoleum b...
About the Artist
Max Weber
Max Weber (1881–1961), born in Białystok in the Russian Empire (now Poland) to Orthodox Jewish parents, immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, at age ten with his family, joining his tailor father.) There, he pursued art studies at the Pratt Institute under Arthur Wesley Dow, an innovative teacher who emphasized expression and form over traditional narrative, drawing from Japanese art and Paul Gauguin....