"Blue and Red Abstraction" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) Linocut toned in mat opening

toned in mat opening

signed in the plate and signed

who was a friend of the artist

Etching & Drypoint

subterranean ground

"Blue and Red Abstraction" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) Linocut toned in mat openingGouache 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,