Ste. Victoire
1955
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color lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 33.3 x 48.6 cm (13 1/8 x 19 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of The George R. Bunker Living Trust
Accession Number
1995.58.3
Art Historical Context
George Bunker's *Ste. Victoire* (1955) is a captivating color lithograph on wove paper, measuring 13 1/8 x 19 1/8 inches, now in the National Gallery of's print collection. The title evokes Mont Sainte-Victoire, rugged Provençal mountain famously depicted by Paul Cézanne over a century earlier, suggesting Bunker's mid-20th-century homage to this timeless landscape subject. Created in the postwar era, the work reflects a continued fascination with natural grandeur amid modern artistic explorations. Lithography, a planographic printmaking process invented in the late 18th century, shines here t...
About the Artist
George Bunker
George Raymond Bunker (1923–1991) was an American painter and educator whose deeply felt engagement with landscape placed him in a tradition stretching from Cézanne's Provençal motifs to the meditative abstraction of mid-twentieth-century American art. Born in 1923, Bunker built a distinguished career as both an artist and an institution builder, holding high academic positions at two important ar...