Breakwater
1960
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color lithograph on Rives BFK paper
Dimensions
image: 67 x 99 cm (26 3/8 x 39 in.) sheet: 71.7 x 101 cm (28 1/4 x 39 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.2042
Art Historical Context
Garo Antreasian's *Breakwater* (1960) is a striking color lithograph that captures the artist's mastery of printmaking during a pivotal moment in American art. Printed on luxurious Rives BFK paper heavyweight, mold-made French sheet prized for its texture and absorbency—this work measures 67 x 99 cm in its image area. Housed in the National Gallery of Art'swald Collection, it exemplifies mid-20th-century innovation in fine art prints. Antreasian, influential Armenian-American artist and educator, was at the forefront of lithography's revival in the United States. In 1960, the same year as *Br...
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...