Second Sails [7] from Second Sails
1978
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View on museum website →Medium
one from a portfolio of eight hardground etchings on wove Arches paper
Dimensions
image: 10.2 x 15.2 cm (4 x 6 in.) sheet: 28.6 x 38.1 cm (11 1/4 x 15 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
1997.8.53.4
About the Artist
Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin (1933–1996) was an American minimalist artist known exclusively for his sculptures and installations made from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures. Born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, he studied art history at Columbia University and attended the Hans Hofmann School before beginning his artistic career in the early 1960s. Flavin's breakthrough came in 1963 with "the diagon...