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Walter StuempfigWW-1914-012501

1914·Watercolor and pen and black ink on paper·13 13/16 × 10 3/4 in. (35.1 × 27.3 cm)

Bequest of Walter C. Baker, 1971

Catalogue

Year: 1914
Medium: Watercolor and pen and black ink on paper
Dimensions: 13 13/16 × 10 3/4 in. (35.1 × 27.3 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Walter Stuempfig

Artist

Walter Stuempfig

Painting

Walter Stuempfig was an American painter whose postwar work combined figuration with an anxious, often claustrophobic sensibility. Operating between social realism and psychological interior, his compositions typically featured confined domestic spaces and isolated figures rendered in muted, earthy tones. Stuempfig's paintings resist easy categorization, oscillating between narrative suggestion and formal abstraction.

Philadelphia, PA, USA

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