Untitled (Black and white abstraction)
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etching
Dimensions
image: 225 x 175 mm paper: 464 x 248 mm
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Accession Number
2008.115.1591
Art Historical Context
**Untitled (Black and Whitestraction)** by Leonard Edmondson invites visitors into the dynamic world of mid-20th-century American printmaking. Created in 1949 this etching exemplifies the post War II surge in abstract art, as artists embraced non-representational forms to explore emotion and form amid a changing cultural landscape. Edmondson, a skilled American printmaker, crafted this untitled work during a pivotal era when abstraction gained prominence alongside movements like Abstract Expressionism. The black-and-white palette heightens the drama of its abstract composition, rendered throu...