"Untitled: Horizontal Abstraction, ca. 1949-50" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) POR With the original descriptive label

With the original descriptive label

rich impression with substantial burr from the drypoint work

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"Untitled: Horizontal Abstraction, ca. 1949-50" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) POR With the original descriptive labelca. 1949 50, Ink and Crayon Resist, 11 x 12 7 8, signed in pencil verso, on stiff crream wove paper. This early piece, with it's dark, subterranean ground, earthy palette and ghostly germinative forms, relates strongly to Barrer's other mature paintings. As she embraced, personalized, then transcended Indian Space concerns for all over patterning and ambiguity between positive and negative form, Barrer infused her own hybred imagery with elements of