Chicago - Grain Elevator III, 1926

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Medium

drypoint in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 33 x 21.2 cm (13 x 8 3/8 in.)

sheet: 40.6 x 27.5 cm (16 x 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams

Catalogue Raisonné

Rose 1984, no. I.96

Accession Number

2008.115.1544

Artists / Makers

Werner Drewes (artist) American, 1899 - 1985

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: 1-XX Chicago / No 109 / "GRAIN ELEVATOR No.3"; lower right in graphite: W. Drewes - 1926; lower right in plate: 2 (artist's monogram) 6; lower center verso in graphite by unknown hand: 500 / 500

Provenance

Estate of the artist; (Bethesda Art Gallery, MD); Reba and Dave Wiliams, Greenwich, CT, 1984; gift to NGA, 2008

Associated Names

Williams, Dave H. and Reba W.

Bibliography

1984: Rose, Ingrid. Werner Drewes: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints. Munich and New York: Verlag Kunstgalerie Esslingen, 1984, p. 201, no. I.96.

1991: Beall, Karen F., and David W. Kiehl. Graphic Excusrions: American Prints in Black and White, 1900-1950, Selections from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams. Boston, Massachusetts: D. R. Godine, 1991, p. 18.