Untitled
January 7, 1964
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oil and crayon
Dimensions
image: 67.1 x 50 cm (26 7/16 x 19 11/16 in.) sheet: 67.1 x 50 cm (26 7/16 x 19 11/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jacob Kainen
Accession Number
2002.98.32
Art Historical Context
Stanley William Hayter (1901–1988), a pioneering British artist and printmaker, created this *Untitled* drawing on January 7, 1964. Best known for founding the influential Atelier 17 workshop Paris in the 1920s, Hayter intaglio printmaking by encouraging experimentation with unconventional techniques and materials. Though renowned for prints, works like this intimate oil and crayon piece on papermeasuring 67.1 x 50 cm—reveal painterly side, blending fluid oils with the tactile marks of crayon to explore abstraction. Completed in the mid-20th century amid the rise of Abstract Expressionism, th...
About the Artist
Stanley William Hayter
Stanley William Hayter (1901–1988), born in Hackney, London, to painter and sign-maker William Harry Hayter, initially pursued a scientific career, earning a degree in chemistry and geology from King's College London. He worked as a research chemist for the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in Abadan, Iran, from 1922 to 1925, painting portraits of colleagues in his spare time; an exhibition of these upon ...