Red Chief
1963
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph (stone and zinc) in violet-red, black and ochre on white Arches paper
Dimensions
image: 40.5 x 30.2 cm (15 15/16 x 11 7/8 in.) sheet: 46.7 x 35.5 cm (18 3/8 x 14 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dorothy J. and Benjamin B. Smith
Accession Number
1984.34.471
About the Artist
Nathan Oliveira
Nathan Oliveira (1928–2010) was an American painter and printmaker associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement who developed a distinctive approach to the human figure that balanced gestural expressionism with haunting psychological presence. Born in Oakland, California, to Portuguese immigrant parents, he studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts and Mills College. Oliveira emerg...