Colorado #8
1951
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lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 33.2 x 49 cm (13 1/16 x 19 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Richard Florsheim Art Fund
Accession Number
2001.43.12
Art Historical Context
**Colorado #8** by Emerson Woelffer, in 1951, the mid-20th-century spirit of American printmaking at a time when artists were exploring abstraction and bold experimentation following World War II. Thisograph on wove paper measures 33.2 x 49 cm, offering an intimate scale that invites close viewing. Housed in the National Gallery Art's print collection—thanks to the generous Gift of the Richard Florsheim Art, named for a fellow print enthusiast—it exemplifies the era's focus on technical innovation and artistic expression through multiples. Lithography, the medium here, is a planographic proce...
About the Artist
Emerson Woelffer
Emerson Woelffer (1914–2003) was an American abstract painter whose long career placed him at the intersection of Abstract Expressionism and a more lyrical, Mediterranean-inflected modernism. Born in Chicago, he studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he later taught, and subsequently received a fellowship from the Institute of Design — the Chicago Bauhaus — where contact with...