Untitled
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oil pastel, marker, graphite, colored pencil, and pressure transfer symbols on Strathmore wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 101.6 × 76.2 cm (40 × 30 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Women's Committee of the Corcoran Gallery of Art)
Accession Number
2015.19.2597
About the Artist
William Christenberry
William Christenberry (1936–2016) was an American artist whose career-long obsession with a small region of rural Alabama transformed the documentation of a place into one of the most sustained and poetic bodies of work in contemporary American art. Born in Hale County, Alabama — the same landscape made famous by James Agee and Walker Evans in their 1941 book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men — Christe...