Seawind from By the Sea
1965/1966
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etching, engraving, and aquatint on wove Arches paper from a portfolio of six etchings and aquatints; four etching, engraving, and aquatints; four etchings; two etching and engravings; one etching, aquatint, and stencil; one engraving; and one cancelled copper plate
Dimensions
plate: 7.5 x 20 cm (2 15/16 x 7 7/8 in.) sheet: 38.3 x 38.3 cm (15 1/16 x 15 1/16 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1968.24.109.4
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...