Trees Against the Sky
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
The art of Karl Schrag, a German émigré to the United States in 1938, was liberated by the war’s end, when he allowed himself to move from politically positioned subjects to the more neutral art of landscape. In 1945 he also began to remake his stylistic approach under the influence of the innovative British printmaker William Stanley Hayter, joining Hayter’s studio, Atelier 17, in Greenwich Village. In both his prints and paintings, Schrag developed a more abstracted use of line with the aim of heightening the sense of motion in the images.
Caption
Karl Schrag (American, 1912–1995). Trees Against the Sky, 1946. Transparent and opaque watercolor, porous pen (felt-tip marker), crayon, ink, and mixed media on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper, 22 9/16 x 15 7/16 in. (57.3 x 39.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 47.113. © Karl Schrag LLC. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Trees Against the Sky
Date
1946
Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor, porous pen (felt-tip marker), crayon, ink, and mixed media on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper
Classification
Dimensions
22 9/16 x 15 7/16 in. (57.3 x 39.2 cm)
Markings
Watermark in paper: "1940 ENGLAND / B"
Credit Line
Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Accession Number
47.113
Rights
© Karl Schrag LLC
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