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Trees Against the Sky

Karl Schrag

American Art

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.
MEDIUM Transparent and opaque watercolor, porous pen (felt-tip marker), crayon, ink, and mixed media on cream, moderately thick, slightly textured wove paper
DATES 1946
DIMENSIONS 22 9/16 x 15 7/16 in. (57.3 x 39.2 cm)
MARKINGS Watermark in paper: "1940 ENGLAND / B"
COLLECTIONS American Art
ACCESSION NUMBER 47.113
CREDIT LINE Dick S. Ramsay Fund
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
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