Primitives
1926
Artist, American, born Poland, 1881 - 1961
Publisher
Printer, American, 1897 - 1990
Printer

Artwork overview
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Medium
bound volume with facsimiles of 10 woodcuts and 1 linocut, including one signed by the artist
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book (closed): 26.51 × 16.51 × 1.11 cm (10 7/16 × 6 1/2 × 7/16 in.)
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Accession
2015.114.21
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Kam Art & Book Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Jack and Margrit Vanderryn, Bethesda, Maryland, 1994; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Bibliography
1926
Weber, Max. Primitives: Poems and Woodcuts. New York: Spiral Press, 1926.
1982
Blumenthal, Joseph. Typographic Years: A Printer's Journey Through a Half Century. New York: Frederic C. Beil, 1982, no. 16.
2002
Burk, Efram L. "A Singular Vision: Max Weber's Artist Book, Primitives." Southeastern College Art Conference Review 14, no. 2 (2002): 127-136.
2013
Rubenstein, Daryl R. Max Weber: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Graphic Work. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2013, pp. 50, 57.
Inscriptions
center of colophon page in black ink: 35; lower right of Still Life, Two Vases in black ink: Max Weber