Untitled
1999
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph in black on Johannot wove paper
Dimensions
image: 30.48 × 30.48 cm (12 × 12 in.) sheet: 66.2 × 56.99 cm (26 1/16 × 22 7/16 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Chazan)
Accession Number
2015.19.3147.4
Art Historical Context
Joseph Norman's *Untitled* (1999) is a striking example of late-20th-century printmaking, housed in the National Gallery of Art as part of the Corcoran Collection (Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Chazan). This square-format lithograph, rendered solely in black ink on fine Johannot wove paper, measures 30.48 × 30.48 cm (12 × 12 in.) for the image, with a larger sheet of 66.2 × 56.99 cm (26 1/16 × 22 7/16 in.). Classified within a portfolio in the CG-W Department, it invites viewers to contemplate abstraction through the artist's masterful use of tonal contrasts and form. Lithography, the medium...