Untitled abstraction

 

Barbara Olmsted

  1915 - 2013 (biography)

c. 1936  

etching with India ink drawing 

8 x 9 3/4" image size 

unsigned 

1 of 1 unique 

 

 

antique-white laid 

proof 

artist 

24853 

SOLD

This is likely a working proof, with India ink added to an etching to delineate where Olmsted wanted to make adjustments. However, it reads like a final and unique composition, with a delicate network of etched lines in the negative spaces of a sweeping, shadowy drawing.