Untitled
c. 1940
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View on museum website →Medium
color screenprint on wove paper
Dimensions
image: 14 × 30.5 cm (5 1/2 × 12 in.) sheet: 21.5 × 30.5 cm (8 7/16 × 12 in.)
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
2008.115.3152
Art Historical Context
Edmund D. Lewandowski *Untitled* (c. 1940) is a vibrant color screenprint on wove, measuring a compact 14 × 30.5 cm. Created during the height of the WPA era, this print exemplifies the artist's mastery of silkscreen techniques, a medium that gained prominence in the 1930s and 1940s for its ability to produce bold, colors and precise details affordably. Screenprinting, or serigraphy, allowed artists like Lewandowski—trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago—to democratize fine art, bridging fine printing with mass reproduction amid the Great Depression and early World War II years....