Untitled

R. B. Kitaj

1970-1972

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Medium

color screenprint on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 61.6 × 42.23 cm (24 1/4 × 16 5/8 in.)

Classification

Portfolio

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Raymond W. Merritt)

Accession Number

2015.19.2623.1

About the Artist

R. B. Kitaj

Ronald Brooks Kitaj (1932–2007), known professionally as R. B. Kitaj, was an American-born painter who spent the greater part of his career in England and became one of the most intellectually ambitious figurative artists of the postwar era. Born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Kitaj led an itinerant early life that included a stint as a merchant seaman before he turned to formal art education. He studied...

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