Untitled
1973
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View on museum website →Medium
graphite on wove paper
Dimensions
overall: 75.7 x 11.1 cm (29 13/16 x 4 3/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Grinstein Family, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.58.1
About the Artist
Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins, born on October 25, 1938, in Riga, Latvia, endured a tumultuous early life marked by World War II displacement. Her family fled Soviet occupation, living in German refugee camps before immigrating to the United States in 1948 via sponsorship from a Lutheran church. Settling in Indianapolis, Indiana, where her father worked as a carpenter and her mother in a hospital laundry, young Vi...