Happy Birthday Dorothy
Date1980
Artist
Stewart Hitch
(American painter, 1940–2002)
MediumMixed media
Dimensionssheet: 10 13/16 × 8 1/2 in. (27.5 × 21.6 cm)
Credit LineTHE DOROTHY AND HERBERT VOGEL COLLECTION: FIFTY WORKS FOR FIFTY STATES, a joint initiative of the Trustees of the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection and the National Gallery of Art, with generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, 2008
Object number2008-34
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextThis is one of many birthday gifts sent to the Vogels by the artists they befriended. The drawing is typical of Stewart Hitch's contemporary work, which features central starburst shapes that appear to simultaneously push towards and pull from the surface.
