Riders of the Apocalypse, 1943

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Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 32.2 x 41.8 cm (12 11/16 x 16 7/16 in.)

sheet: 39.8 x 48.7 cm (15 11/16 x 19 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Fine/Looney 1986, no. 222

Accession Number

2008.115.267

Artists / Makers

Benton Spruance (artist) American, 1904 - 1967

Theodore Cuno (printer) American, born Germany, active 20th century

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Inscription

lower left on stone: B.S. (underlined); lower left in graphite: Ed. 35; lower center in graphite: _Riders of the Apocalypse; lower right in graphite: Spruance 43-; lower right corner in graphite by unknown hand: 20-; upper left corner verso in graphite by unknown hand: J-B; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 4276

Provenance

Reba and Dave Williams, Greenwich, CT; purchased 2008 by NGA

Associated Names

Williams, Dave H. and Reba W.

Exhibition History

2016: Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 82.

Bibliography

1986: Fine, Ruth and Robert F. Looney. The Prints of Benton Murdoch Spruance. Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press, 1986.