Rippled Surface
1950
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View on museum website →Medium
linoleum cut in black and gray-brown, printed fro m two blocks
Dimensions
image: 25.9 x 32 cm (10 3/16 x 12 5/8 in.) sheet: 31.4 x 40.7 cm (12 3/8 x 16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt Collection
Accession Number
1974.28.39
About the Artist
M.C. Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) was a Dutch graphic artist renowned for his mathematically-inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints featuring impossible constructions, tessellations, and explorations of infinity. Though he considered himself lacking in mathematical ability, Escher's work demonstrates profound intuitive understanding of geometry, symmetry, and spatial paradox. A transform...