Two Women on the Shore (To kvinner ved stranden)
1898
Medium
color woodcut with watercolor on wove paper
Dimensions
image (irregular): 38.5 x 53 cm (15 3/16 x 20 7/8 in.) sheet: 46.5 x 58.6 cm (18 5/16 x 23 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection) and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1978.15.1
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...