Study for "Standing While All Around Are Sinking"

1977/1998

Roger Brown

Associated Names
Roger Brown

Artist, American, 1941 - 1997

Landfall Press

Artist

The image displays an abstract scene with a tilted rectangular building, featuring a grid of windows that form distinct, angular shapes. The silhouettes of people occupy the windows, each figure engaged in different poses. Surrounding the building, there are more simplified structures and arc-like shapes, against a banded sky with alternating horizontal lines of dark and light shades.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint in black on textured wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Collectors Committee

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.97 × 13.02 cm (5 1/2 × 5 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 34.93 × 35.24 cm (13 3/4 × 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.157.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Acquired for NGA by purchase from Roger Brown Study Collection in 2015.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

in graphite, below plate mark, lower left: I/X

Markings

blind stamp: ESTATE JAMES BROWN [as an arch] / 1998; stamped in gray, lower left verso: COPYRIGHT 1998 / LANDFALL PRESS INC. / 329 W. 18TH STREET / SUITE 601 / CHICAGO, IL 60616

Wikidata ID

Q77015880

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