Subway by Eva Hesse https://www.nga.gov/artworks/147027-subway
right in graphite: eva hesse may 1954 no 1; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand
right in graphite: eva hesse may 1954 no 1; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand
Inscriptions lower right in graphite: Zúñiga 57; center left edge in graphite by unknown hand
graphite: Cypress Grove, Point Lobos / Edward Weston / 1940; on recto, by unknown hand
right has brown hair and leans forward as she holds up a blue plate with her right hand
Zoom In Zoom Out Recenter Visual Description A boy leads a girl by her hand
Hans Mielich was the leading painter in Bavaria in the mid-sixteenth century. His art was greatly influenced by Albrecht Altdorfer with whom he worked in Regensburg from about 1536 to 1538.
acquired early in the century; see his letter of 30 January 1989 to NGA curator John Hand
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, as he turned from a career as a painter and a graphic and tapestry designer to concentrate on sculpture, Aristide Maillol was shaping what would become the leitmotif of his career. The subject that inspired him was the female nude, carefully observed but transmuted by underlying geometric forms into a kind of architecture, evoking the timeless rather than the individual.
She holds her left hand, to our right, to that cheek so the elbow is close to the
graphite: Eigendruck; lower right in graphite: EL Kirchner; bottom left by later hand