"Untitled: Horizontal Abstraction, ca. 1949-50" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) POR

"Untitled: Horizontal Abstraction, ca. 1949-50" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) PORca. 1949 50, Ink and Crayon Resist, 11 x 12 7 8, signed in pencil verso, on stiff crream wove paper. This early piece, with it's dark, subterranean ground, earthy palette and ghostly germinative forms, relates strongly to Barrer's other mature paintings. As she embraced, personalized, then transcended Indian Space concerns for all over patterning and ambiguity between positive and negative form, Barrer infused her own hybred imagery with elements of

The dramatic back lighting and attention to both texture and detail in this print create an iconic and romantic vision of early American industry

with it's dark

(60 plus 12 proofs) in the 2nd

With the original descriptive label

who recognized his work immediately

rich impression with substantial burr from the drypoint work

" in pencil

a variably inked impression due to a large fiber inclusion at lower left

signed & dated in the plate: A Hohenstein 1898

conventionalized form and equality between of positive and negative space as design elements

and notably

On thick cream wove paper