Suburbs (Softground Series) V
1990
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softground etching and aquatint in ochre and gray on Somerset Textured paper
Dimensions
sheet: 37.5 x 30.5 cm (14 3/4 x 12 in.) image: 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
1998.40.142
Art Historical Context
**Suburbs (Softground Series) V created by British sculptor Tony Cragg in1990, captures the artist's distinctive exploration of form and texture through printmaking. Cragg, who won the Turner Prize in1988 and later directed the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, is celebrated for his organic, abstract sculptures that evoke natural erosion and urban detritus. This intimate print from his *Softground Series* translates those sculptural sensibilities into two dimensions, suggesting suburban landscapes through subtle, layered impressions in ochre and gray tones. The work employs *softground etching*—a tec...
About the Artist
Tony Cragg
Sir Tony Cragg (b. 1949) is a British sculptor whose career, spanning more than five decades, has traced a remarkable arc from early assemblages of found industrial materials to large-scale works of virtuosic formal invention in bronze, steel, glass, and wood. Born in Liverpool, Cragg worked as a laboratory technician for the British Rubber Producers Research Association before pursuing formal art...