Rain and the Sea
1946
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engraving and etching in black on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 37.8 x 27.6 cm (14 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.) sheet: 51 x 37.5 cm (20 1/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1946.21.336
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...