Untitled
c. 1973
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pastel on white wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 43 x 35.2 cm (16 15/16 x 13 7/8 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
1995.58.49
Art Historical Context
**Untitled** by George Bunker (c. 1973) is a delicate pastel drawing on white wove paper, measuring 43 x 35.2 cm. Created in the early 1970s, this untitled work captures the intimate, experimental spirit of late 20th-century drawing practices. Pastel, a medium prized for its vibrant pigments and soft, blendable texture, allows artists to achieve luminous effects and subtle gradations directly on paper—techniques Bunker employs here on the smooth surface of wove paper, ideal for precise layering without the texture of laid varieties. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's CG-W department and ...
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...