Walter Sorge Hand-Colored Etching "Starry Night," 1980

Item Details

Dr. Walter Felix Sorge (Canada/United States, 1931 – 2021)
Starry Night, 1980
Etching with watercolor on paper
Signed to the lower right

Canadian-born artist Walter Sorge was a Modernist whose work exhibits many facets, periods, and styles, however, he was foremost a formalist creating both gestural abstractions and geometric Color Field compositions. He worked in a variety of mediums but was also a very accomplished printmaker in the mid to late 20th century. Sorge received both his B.A. and M.A. at UCLA and went on to receive his Ed.D. degrees in Fine Arts and Art Education from Columbia University. He worked in the famed Atelier 17 in Paris as an apprentice to the celebrated Surrealist painter and printmaker Stanley William Hayter who had a strong influence on his printmaking. After working in Paris, he returned to the United States to create and teach art.

• Item not examined outside of mounting

Condition

- abrasions and scratches to the frame; stains and foxing to the mat and painting.

Dimensions

- measures the frame; plate measures 15.75" W x 11.75" H.

Item #

ITMGB84561