Palmist Hand
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View on museum website →Medium
color lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 26.35 × 19.37 cm (10 3/8 × 7 5/8 in.) sheet: 33.02 × 25.4 cm (13 × 10 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase)
Accession Number
2015.19.3022
About the Artist
William Christenberry
William Christenberry (1936–2016) was an American artist whose career-long obsession with a small region of rural Alabama transformed the documentation of a place into one of the most sustained and poetic bodies of work in contemporary American art. Born in Hale County, Alabama — the same landscape made famous by James Agee and Walker Evans in their 1941 book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men — Christe...