Untitled
started 1993, published 1994
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etching on Lana Gravure wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 38.89 × 45.09 cm (15 5/16 × 17 3/4 in.) sheet: 50.17 × 55.88 cm (19 3/4 × 22 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist
Accession Number
2015.139.12
Art Historical Context
Bruce Nauman's *Untitled* (started 1993, published 1994) exemplifies the conceptual artist's probing exploration of language, perception, and the viewer's experience. A key figure in postwar American art, Nauman bridges minimalism, performance, and installation, often using text and abstraction to unsettle conventional boundaries between art and life. This print, housed in the National Gallery of Art's collection, reflects his mid-1990s practice of translating ephemeral ideas into enduring graphic forms. Crafted as an etching on Lana Gravure wove paper—a fine, heavyweight stock ideal for capt...
About the Artist
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman, born on December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, grew up in a family frequently uprooted by his father's career as a General Electric engineer. After studying mathematics, physics, and art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a BS in 1964, Nauman pursued an MFA at the University of California, Davis in 1966. There, he studied under William T. Wiley and Robert Arne...