Black on black
1965
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph (stone) in two blacks and light violet on white Arches paper
Dimensions
image: 39 x 25.5 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/16 in.) sheet: 51.4 x 38.1 cm (20 1/4 x 15 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dorothy J. and Benjamin B. Smith
Accession Number
1983.18.155
About the Artist
Garo Antreasian
Garo Zareh Antreasian (1922–2018), an American artist of Armenian descent born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to parents who survived the 1915 Armenian genocide, discovered lithography at age seventeen while attending Arsenal Technical High School, using abandoned equipment there. He earned a BFA from the Herron School of Art in 1948, served as a combat artist in the Pacific during World War II, and th...