The Direction of Water
1991
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View on museum website →Medium
color spitbite, soapground, soft-ground aquatint, and drypoint on Somerset textured paper
Dimensions
plate: 91.1 x 114 cm (35 7/8 x 44 7/8 in.) sheet: 105.9 x 126.8 cm (41 11/16 x 49 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Crown Point Press and the Artist, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.235.16
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...