Winter
1963
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etching
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.1608
Art Historical Context
Peter Takal's *Winter* (1963), a delicate etching housed in the National Gallery of Art's Department of Modern Prints and Drawings (CG-W), visitors to contemplate the serene chill of the season. As part of the prestigious Rosenwald Collection—assembled by philanthropist Lessing J.wald and renowned for its depth in graphic arts—this print exemplifies mid-20th-century excellence in American printmaking. Etching, Takal's chosen medium, is an intaglio technique where acid-resistant ground coats a metal plate, lines are incised to expose the metal, and acid "bites" the grooves for inking and print...
About the Artist
Peter Takal
Peter Takal (1905–1995) was a Romanian-born American artist renowned for his masterful pen-and-ink drawings and prints, which blended precise linear observation with surrealist undertones. Born on December 8, 1905, in Bucharest, Romania, Takal spent his early career in Europe, living and working in Berlin during the 1920s before moving to Paris in the 1930s, where he pursued acting alongside his a...