Untitled
c. 1969
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graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 21.4 x 27.8 cm (8 7/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of The George R. Bunker Living Trust
Accession Number
1995.58.40
Art Historical Context
**Untitled** by George Bunker, created around 1969, is a delicate graphite drawing on wove paper, measuring a modest 21.4 x 27.8 cm. This intimate scale invites close contemplation, characteristic of works meant for personal study or quiet reflection. Housed in the National Gallery of Art Department of Modern Drawings (CG-W), it exemplifies the precision and subtlety possible with graphite—a versatile medium favored by artists for its range from soft shading to fine lines on the smooth, even texture of wove paper. In the late 1960s, amid cultural upheavals like the Vietnam War and civil right...
About the Artist
George Bunker
George Raymond Bunker (1923–1991) was an American painter and educator whose deeply felt engagement with landscape placed him in a tradition stretching from Cézanne's Provençal motifs to the meditative abstraction of mid-twentieth-century American art. Born in 1923, Bunker built a distinguished career as both an artist and an institution builder, holding high academic positions at two important ar...