Recent Acquisitions 2022: Works by M. C. Escher

M.C. Escher, Nude Woman [recto], Nude [verso], 1920, black pencil on wove paper; black pencil on wove paper, sheet: 49.9 x 65.1 cm (19 5/8 x 25 5/8 in.), National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Michael Schiffman in honor of Rock J. Walker/Walker Fine Art, 2021.98.1.a-b

M.C. Escher, Nude Woman [recto], Nude [verso], 1920, black pencil on wove paper; black pencil on wove paper, sheet: 49.9 x 65.1 cm (19 5/8 x 25 5/8 in.), National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Michael Schiffman in honor of Rock J. Walker/Walker Fine Art, 2021.98.1.a-b

M.C. Escher, Spider in the Garden (design for a ceramic plate),1920, watercolor and graphite on light brown handmade paper, sheet: 25.9 x 24.5 cm (10 3/16 x 9 5/8 in.), National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Michael Schiffman in honor of Rock J. Walker/Walker Fine Art, 2021.98.2

M.C. Escher, Symmetry 131, 1967, ink and correction fluid over incised lines and graphite on graph paper, sheet: 30.3 x 22.6 cm (11 15/16 x 8 7/8 in.), National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Michael Schiffman in honor of Rock J. Walker/Walker Fine Art, 2021.98.13

M.C. Escher, Madonna del Porto, Sutri, 1927, white and black crayon on black paper, sheet: 66.5 x 48 cm (26 3/16 x 18 7/8 in.), National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Michael Schiffman in honor of Rock J. Walker/Walker Fine Art