"Blue and Red Abstraction" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) Linocut Etching & Drypoint

Etching & Drypoint

Gouache and Ink

signed & inscribed in pencil

1/2" from the image

signed in the plate and signed

"Blue and Red Abstraction" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) Linocut Etching & DrypointGouache and Ink, 1950, 7 3 4 x 10 , signed and dated in ink, on textured cream J Whatman Hand Made watermarked paper, a few tiny stray marks of paint in the large margins. Gertrude Barrer was a member of the group of painters in New York in the mid to late 1940s including Steve Wheeler, Ruth Lewin, Peter Busa Howard Daum and others who came to be know as the "Indian Space" painters. The name derives from their embrace of the flattened space,