"Blue and Red Abstraction" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) Linocut Gouache and Ink

Gouache and Ink

subterranean ground

Wood Engraving

In the 1940's-50's he designed many record covers for blues and jazz artists on the Blue Note label

Etching & Drypoint

"Blue and Red Abstraction" by Gertrude Barrer, Amer., (1921-1997) Linocut Gouache and InkGouache 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,