Back Streets

1937

Blanche Grambs

Artist, American, 1916 - 2010

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, aquatint and roulette in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 30.2 x 37.9 cm (11 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 38.4 x 44.3 cm (15 1/8 x 17 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.98.25

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wechsler 1996, no. 32

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Rona Schneider, Brooklyn); Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 10, 1999; gift to NGA, 2002. [1]
[1] The donor file contains another receipt for the present composition, dated May 12, 1994, from Mary Ryan Gallery, New York.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1996

  • Wechsler, James. "The Great Depression and the Prints of Blanche Grambs." Print Quarterly XIII (December 1996): no. 32.

Inscriptions

lower center in graphite: Back Streets; lower right in graphite: Blanche Grambs

Watermarks

BFK FRANCE

Wikidata ID

Q76336695

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