Torment

1919/1920 (published 1929)

Arthur B. Davies

Artist, American, 1862 - 1928

Frank A. Nankivell

Printer, American, born Australia, 1869 - 1959

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    softground etching with aquatint in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20 x 30.2 cm (7 7/8 x 11 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 23.6 x 36 cm (9 5/16 x 14 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.99.8

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Czestochowski 1987, no. 102, iv/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Graphics International, Ltd., Washington, D.C.); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased August 31, 1972; gift to NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • Modern American Prints and Drawings from the Kainen Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2014-2015

Bibliography

1987

  • Czestochowski, Joseph S. Arthur B. Davies: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1987, no. 102, iv/iv.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Frank A. Nankivell print; lower right in brown ink: Arthur B. Davies; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 22 Torment; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: 75.00

Markings

Ruth Kainen stamp

Wikidata ID

Q76336299

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