Untitled
1901 to 1925
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pastel on white wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 21.9 x 28.1 cm (8 5/8 x 11 1/16 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
1995.58.53
Art Historical Context
George Bunker's *Untitled* pastel, created sometime between 1901 and1925, captures the intimate scale of early 20th-century drawing. Measuring just 21.9 x 28.1 cm, this work on white wove paper reflects a personal, exploratory approach typical of the era, bridging the refined Edwardian period and the dynamic Jazz Age. As a gift from The George R. Bunker Living to the National Gallery of, it joins the CG-W department's collection of drawings, private patronage in American art preservation. Pastel, with its powdery pigments applied directly to paper, offered artists like Bunker a versatile medi...
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...