Summer Pond [working proof 1]
2003
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hard ground etching on wove Somerset paper [working proof 1]
Dimensions
plate: 32.6 × 47.4 cm (12 13/16 × 18 11/16 in.) sheet (irreg.): 45.1 × 57.6 cm (17 3/4 × 22 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kathan Brown
Accession Number
2024.132.630
Art Historical Context
Pat Steir's *Summer Pond [working proof1]* (2003) captures the artist's lifelong fascination with water and nature through the intimate medium of printmaking. A pioneering figure in contemporary American art,ir blends abstract expressionism influences from Chinese landscape painting and Zen philosophy, often evoking fluidity and chance in her watery motifs. This etching, housed in the National Gallery of Art as a gift from master printer Kathan Brown—founder of Crown Point—offers a rare glimpse into Steir's process during a period when she was expanding her monumental paintings into intricate ...
About the Artist
Pat Steir
Pat Steir, born Iris Patricia Sukoneck on April 10, 1938, in Newark, New Jersey, to a Russian-Jewish immigrant family, knew from age five that she wanted to be an artist or poet. The eldest daughter of a father who worked in art-adjacent trades like silk-screening and neon sign design, she frequented the Philadelphia Museum of Art as a child. Steir studied at Pratt Institute from 1956 to 1958, the...