Beer Garden

2012 - 2017

Nicole Eisenman

Artist, American, born France, 1965

Harlan & Weaver

Printer

Harlan & Weaver

Publisher

In shades of silvery gray and white, a cartoonish fist holds the handle of a beer stein so we look down into the glass. Filling the space around it, people sit, kiss, drink, or talk in a swirling, dream-like haze in this horizontal print.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint, and drypoint, printed chine collé on wove Hahnemühle paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 101.4 × 121.6 cm (39 15/16 × 47 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 112.8 × 131.7 cm (44 7/16 × 51 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.9.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Harlan and Weaver, Inc., New York; purchased by NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2024

  • The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and Its Legacy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2024.

Inscriptions

"Nicole Eisenman 12-17" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. "3/15" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand.

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