Two Women on the Shore (Frauen am Meeresufer)
1898
Medium
woodcut in blue, green, black, and ocher with green crayon on Japanese paper
Dimensions
image: 45.4 x 51.2 cm (17 7/8 x 20 3/16 in.) sheet: 53.4 x 59.3 cm (21 x 23 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Epstein Family Collection, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.31.1
About the Artist
Edvard Munch · 1863–1944
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely psychological works made him a pioneer of Expressionism and one of the most influential artists of the modern era. His 1893 masterpiece 'The Scream' has become an iconic symbol of existential anxiety. Munch's art was profoundly shaped by personal tragedy—his mother died when he was five, his beloved sister Sophie at fo...