Window Series VII
1960
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color lithograph on Rives BFK wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 45.72 × 38.1 cm (18 × 15 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1964.8.1989.7
Art Historical Context
**Window Series VII** is a 1960 color lithograph by American artist Clinton Adams, printed on Rives BFK wove paper. Measuring 18 by 15 inches, this work belongs to a portfolio in the National Gallery of Art’s Rosenwald Collection, a renowned holding of fine prints. Adams (1918–2002) was a painter and printmaker who helped lead the mid-20th-century revival of lithography as a fine-art medium in the United States. Color lithography requires drawing with greasy materials on stone or plates, then printing successive layers of ink with precise registration to build rich, painterly color. The high-...
About the Artist
Clinton Adams
Clinton Adams (1918–2002) was an American painter, lithographer, art historian, and educator whose work across multiple decades helped revive lithography as a major medium of American art and established the institutional foundations that sustain collaborative printmaking in the United States to this day. Born on December 11, 1918, in Glendale, California, Adams earned both his bachelor's and mast...