Woman and Peacock
mid 20th century
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woodcut on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 14.9 × 8 cm (5 7/8 × 3 1/8 in.) sheet: 18.7 × 14.1 cm (7 3/8 × 5 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1980.45.1206
Art Historical Context
**Woman and Peacock** by Bernard Reder is a striking mid-20th-century wood, part of the National Gallery of's esteemed Rosenwald Collection. Created during a period when printmaking flourished as an accessible yet expressive medium, this intimate work measures a compact plate size of 14.9 × 8 cm (5 7/8 × 3 1/8 in.), inviting close contemplation. Reder, a Polish-American artist active in the early to mid-1900s, favored prints that blend symbolic imagery with robust craftsmanship, and this piece exemplifies his contribution to modern graphic arts. Woodcut on laid paper highlights the technique'...
About the Artist
Bernard Reder
Bernard Reder (1897–1963), born in Czernowitz, Bukovina—then part of Austria-Hungary and a vibrant center of Jewish and Hasidic culture—was the son of a Jewish innkeeper. At age four, he began drawing, but World War I interrupted his youth when, at 17, he was conscripted into the Austrian army and served in the trenches. After the war, Reder enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, studying...