Square within a Square
1974
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View on museum website →Medium
orange crayon and graphite on graph paper
Dimensions
overall: 20.1 x 26.4 cm (7 15/16 x 10 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, Patrons' Permanent Fund and Gift of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
Accession Number
1991.241.98
About the Artist
Robert Mangold
Robert Mangold, born on October 12, 1937, in North Tonawanda, New York, grew up in a working-class family near Buffalo, where his father toiled in an organ factory and his mother worked as a department store buyer. From an early age, he showed artistic talent, borrowing art books from the library and pursuing illustration in high school. Mangold trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1956 ...