Tokens (Title Page)
1961
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lithograph in black and two blues on Nacre paper
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.2060.1
Art Historical Context
**Tokens (Title Page)** *Garo Antreasian, 1961* Step into the refined world of mid-20th-century print with Garo Antreasian's *Tokens (Title Page)*, a captivating lithograph from the National Gallery of Art's Rosenwald. Created in 1961, this work serves as the elegant introduction to a portfolio (Department CG-W), printed in ink with two shades of blue on luxurious Nacre paper. Thelescent surface of Nacre evokes the iridescent sheen of mother-of-l, adding depth and subtle luminosity that enhances the composition's mysterious allure. Lithography, a planographic technique pioneered in the l...
About the Artist
Garo Antreasian
Garo Zareh Antreasian (1922–2018), an American artist of Armenian descent born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to parents who survived the 1915 Armenian genocide, discovered lithography at age seventeen while attending Arsenal Technical High School, using abandoned equipment there. He earned a BFA from the Herron School of Art in 1948, served as a combat artist in the Pacific during World War II, and th...