Seascape
1988
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color woodcut with hand painting by the artist on silk mounted on Arches Cover buff
Dimensions
plate: 33 x 40 cm (13 x 15 3/4 in.) sheet: 68.6 x 69.9 cm (27 x 27 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2001.142.97
Art Historical Context
Pat Steir's *Seascape* (1988) captures the fluid, evocative essence of the ocean in a striking color woodcut, enhanced by the artist's own hand painting on silk. Mounted on Arches Cover buff paper, this print measures 33 x 40 cm on the plate and expands to 68.6 x 69.9 cm on the sheet, inviting viewers into a meditative seascape that blends abstraction with natural rhythms. Steir, a prominent contemporary American artist known for her monumental waterfall paintings and poured-paint techniques, explores themes of nature's sublime power here through printmaking, bridging her painterly instincts w...
About the Artist
Pat Steir
Pat Steir, born Iris Patricia Sukoneck on April 10, 1938, in Newark, New Jersey, to a Russian-Jewish immigrant family, knew from age five that she wanted to be an artist or poet. The eldest daughter of a father who worked in art-adjacent trades like silk-screening and neon sign design, she frequented the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a child. Steir studied at Pratt Institute from 1956 to 1958, the...