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

A family drifts slowly on a river

signed & titled in pencil on white wove paper

original hinges to top margin edge

dangling arm suggestive of injury or worse

the "Bon a Tirer" impression approved by Wengenroth and given to his printer as a guide for printing the edition

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