Standing Female Nude
1912
Medium
pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper mounted to wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 32.07 × 18.57 cm (12 5/8 × 7 5/16 in.) support: 36.04 × 20.64 cm (14 3/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund)
Accession Number
2015.19.2488
About the Artist
Max Weber
Max Weber (1881–1961), born in Białystok in the Russian Empire (now Poland) to Orthodox Jewish parents, immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, at age ten with his family, joining his tailor father.) There, he pursued art studies at the Pratt Institute under Arthur Wesley Dow, an innovative teacher who emphasized expression and form over traditional narrative, drawing from Japanese art and Paul Gauguin....