"Untitled: Horizontal Abstraction, ca. 1949-50" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) POR On thick cream wove paper

On thick cream wove paper

and notably

a variably inked impression due to a large fiber inclusion at lower left

signed & dated in the plate: A Hohenstein 1898

The dramatic back lighting and attention to both texture and detail in this print create an iconic and romantic vision of early American industry

"Untitled: Horizontal Abstraction, ca. 1949-50" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) POR On thick cream wove paperca. 1949 50, Ink and Crayon Resist, 11 x 12 7 8, signed in pencil verso, on stiff crream wove paper. This early piece, with it's dark, subterranean ground, earthy palette and ghostly germinative forms, relates strongly to Barrer's other mature paintings. As she embraced, personalized, then transcended Indian Space concerns for all over patterning and ambiguity between positive and negative form, Barrer infused her own hybred imagery with elements of