Rhinoceros
Vija Celmins
1965
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oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 40.6 x 68 cm (16 x 26 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Edward R. Broida
Accession Number
2005.142.11
About the Artist
Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins, born on October 25, 1938, in Riga, Latvia, endured a tumultuous early life marked by World War II displacement. Her family fled Soviet occupation, living in German refugee camps before immigrating to the United States in 1948 via sponsorship from a Lutheran church. Settling in Indianapolis, Indiana, where her father worked as a carpenter and her mother in a hospital laundry, young Vi...