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

subterranean ground

who was a friend of the artist

Wood Engraving

1/2" from the image

which likely shows Horter's own home or the view from it

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