Indian Space Abstraction, Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997), Slate Print A family drifts slowly on

A family drifts slowly on a river

image 12 x 11

This small plate manages to convey the monumentality of the Brooklyn Bridge

dangling arm suggestive of injury or worse

Indian Space Abstraction, Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997), Slate Print A family drifts slowly onColored Ink Drawing, 1948, 10 13 16 x 14 1 16, signed and dated in ink, on smooth cream wove bristol board. Some staining along right edge, strongest at the signature in lower right corner. A complex and delicately rendered composition from the height of the Indian Space movement during the mid to late 1940's. The planar negative spaces here are given as much elemental authority as the ethereal structures and webs woven by the delicate concentric