Bessie Smith
1999
Artist, American, 1938 - 2024
Printer, American, born 1963
Printer, American, born 1947
Printer, American, born 1948
Printer, American, born 1975
Publisher

Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on Somerset Satin wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 111.1 × 90.8 cm (43 3/4 × 35 3/4 in.)
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Accession
2015.23.83
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Catalogue Raisonné
Berswordt-Wallrabe 2008, no. CR124
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2015
The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, 2015-2017.
Bibliography
1966
Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 1782.
2008
Berswordt-Wallrabe, Silke von. Richard Serra, Prints: Catalogue Raisonné, 1972-2007. Düsseldorf, Germany: Richter Verlag, 2008, no. CR124.
2011
Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. 47.103. http://www.nga.gov/gemini
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: SP 1/5; lower right in graphite: R Serra / 99; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: RS98-3274
Markings
embossed lower right: © [Gemini G.E.L.]; stamped lower left verso in gray ink: Published by Gemini G.E.L. LLC / Los Angeles, California
Wikidata ID
Q76439278