Warum?

1903

Herbert G. French

Artist, American, 1872 - 1942

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    mount: 34.3 x 15.2 cm (13 1/2 x 6 in.)
    mount: 24.4 x 7.5 cm (9 5/8 x 2 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 14.5 x 6.8 cm (5 11/16 x 2 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2008.65.6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection; NGA purchase (through Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc., New York), 2008.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on image, signed, lower right in black ink: HF / 03; on verso, signed, center in graphite: Herbert Gr[?] French; lower right, printed in black ink on label: This first edition consists of seventeen copies, of which this is Number ten. / CINCINNATI, the fifteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred and three. / H.G. French.
on accompanying label, printed in black ink: Warum?; on verso, printed in black and gold ink on label:
PEACE! haunting face,--what art thou?
Bringest not
The memory of thy sisters' untold griefs
Thro' all the ages? Lo! how many nights
Of hope and dread gloom in thy dusky eyes!--
What brave defeats have crowned thy veiled brows
With anguished glory! Ah, what bitter draughts
Framed the sweet patience of thy lips,--thou Sphinx
Ineffable--that they, protesting not,
Must murmur still:--"Warum"!
E. K.

Wikidata ID

Q64155142

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