Untitled (#27)
1946-1947
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graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 22.54 × 30.48 cm (8 7/8 × 12 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Barbara Bladen Porter
Accession Number
1998.81.2
Art Historical Context
Ronald Bladen's *Untitled (#27)*, created between 1946 and 1947, is a graphite drawing on wove, measuring 8⅞ × 12 inches (.54 × 30.48 cm). This intimate captures the Canadian-born artist's early explorations in the immediate post-World War II years, when he was in his late twenties honing his skills after studies at the Vancouver School of. Bladen (191–1988) would later pioneer Minimalist sculpture with massive, geometric forms that challenged perceptions of space and scale in the 1960s New York art scene. Yet pieces like this drawing reveal his foundational practice, where graphite's versati...