Smithsonian American Art Museum Director Elizabeth Broun describes this painting as a "metaphor that works on many levels." Explore Looking for the Mountain by contemporary artist Pat Steir in Director's Choice.
Looking for the Mountain
Smithsonian American Art Museum Director Elizabeth Broun describes this painting as a "metaphor that works on many levels." Explore Looking for the Mountain by contemporary artist Pat Steir in Director's Choice.
Source: National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996).
Pictured: Pat Steir, born 1940, Looking for the Mountain, 1971, oil, pencil, crayon, and ink on canvas, 92 3/8 x 75 1/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Richard M. Hollander in honor of Jean S. Lighton.