Pearl Masque
started 1980, published 1981
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph on Arches 88 wove paper
Dimensions
image: 65.5 x 88.2 cm (25 13/16 x 34 3/4 in.) sheet: 72.3 x 95.3 cm (28 7/16 x 37 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist
Accession Number
1988.74.97
About the Artist
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman, born on December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, grew up in a family frequently uprooted by his father's career as a General Electric engineer. After studying mathematics, physics, and art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a BS in 1964, Nauman pursued an MFA at the University of California, Davis in 1966. There, he studied under William T. Wiley and Robert Arne...