"Inspired by summers at the coast of Maine, I wanted to show the immensity of the sea, to find a visual parallel for the fragrance of grasses, for the sound of the sea and of falling rain, and to express the influence of the moon upon the ocean. It was a search for the essence and spirit of an experience."

- Karl Schrag, Happiness and Torment of Printmaking, 1966

Karl Schrag was one of the most respected painters and printmakers of the mid-twentieth century, effectively fusing aspects of Modernism, Abstract Expressionism, and Realism into compelling interpretations of nature's moods and movement.

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Karl Schrag won numerous awards and exhibited widely throughout his career, including with the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Collection of Fine Arts of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, Kraushaar Galleries in New York, and the St. Botolph Club in Boston.

Today, his works are in public collections around the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the British Museum in London, the Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Provenance:

Collection of the Karl Schrag LLC

Inscription:

(in pen on canvas wrapped on top stretcher) THE BIG VASE KARL SCHRAG

Exhibitions:

Force of Nature: Karl Schrag in Maine, Vose Galleries, Boston, May 16 – June 27, 2024