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Hilltop Sunset, Horizontal Force

1967

Werner Drewes

Associated Names

Werner Drewes

Artist, American, 1899 - 1985

The image displays elongated, rectangular shapes and bold lines in shades of blue, yellow, and black in an abstract composition.

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Artwork overview

Medium

color woodcut on wove paper
Credit Line

Gift of Jacob Kainen
Dimensions

overall: 37.2 x 53 cm (14 5/8 x 20 7/8 in.)
Accession Number

2002.98.222
Catalogue Raisonné

Rose 1984, no. III.250

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gift of the artist to Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob

Bibliography

1984

Rose, Ingrid. Werner Drewes: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints. Munich and New York: Verlag Kunstgalerie Esslingen, 1984, p. 366, no. III.250.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: 16/XX; lower right in graphite: Drewes; lower left corner in graphite: to J. Kainen

Wikidata ID

Q76359823

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