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Medium

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...

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