
Great Head - Low Tide
Edna Andrade
Although best-known for her rigorously planned geometric abstractions, Andrade was an accomplished, even visionary landscape artist. Towards the end of her life she made a series of large drawings of shore rocks, each one minutely observed and realized through an array of little marks. In these late works as in her complex optical-pattern paintings, she pushed the limits of perception and simultaneously suggested infinity.
Artist
Date of Birth
(1917-2008)
Date
1996
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
29 1/4 x 41 1/4 in. (74.295 x 104.775 cm.)
Accession #
2011.1.84
Credit Line
Art by Women Collection, Gift of Linda Lee Alter
Copyright
© Estate of Edna Andrade, courtesy of Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Category
Subject
Collection
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