Printed in black on cream-white paper, a person standing on a bridge holds both hands to their oval-shaped head in this stylized lithograph. The person’s waifish body creates an S-shape, and their hollow eyes look slightly off to the left. The face has exaggeratedly high cheekbones, and the mouth is open in a tall oval. The bridge stretches from the bottom right corner of the print to the middle of the left edge of the sheet. Two black silhouettes represent people at the far end of the bridge. A curving form in the distance suggests a body of water with a couple of masted ships near the…
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Geschrei (The Scream)

Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863 - 1944)

printer A. Liebmann Buch u. Steindruckerei Graviranstalt

1895

Medium
lithograph
Classification
Print
Dimensions
sheet: 48.3 x 38.8 cm (19 x 15 1/4 in.)
Culture
Norwegian
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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