TitlePink Bandana
Artist
Nancy Hagin
(American, b. 1940)
Date1998
MediumWatercolor on paper
DimensionsSheet size: 21 × 30 in.
Framed: 24 × 33 × 1 1/2 in.
SignedSigned in graphite at bottom edge: "M. Hagin"
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, Gift of Nancy Hagin
Object number2012.3
Label TextHagin pictures herself working in the dim light of her barn studio in the backyard of her country home in Columbia County, New York. Upon acquiring the property in 1983, she developed the routine of working in watercolor while upstate, and in acrylics when working in New York City. Hagin’s watercolors are marked by great clarity, intricate linear detail, and a strict underlying geometry. In Self-Portrait she is engaged in working on one of her many still-lifes. Her floral set-up is visible at left. Hagin likes watercolor for “its brilliant luminosity. It made me very conscious of transparency. . . . I work the painting horizontally, on tall sawhorses, to control the gravity of the wet and densely pigmented color. I use very heavy paper so that I can scrape or scrub the surface if I want to make changes.”
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