The Mission
c. 1935
Artist, American, born Russia, 1899 - 1987
Printer, American, 1894 - 1966
Artwork overview
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Medium
lithograph in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Florian Carr Fund and Gift of the Print Research Foundation
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Dimensions
image: 30.9 × 45 cm (12 3/16 × 17 11/16 in.)
sheet: 40.2 × 57.9 cm (15 13/16 × 22 13/16 in.) -
Accession
2008.115.266
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Catalogue Raisonné
Gettings 1982, no. 33
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Reba and Dave Williams, Greenwich, Connecticut; acquired 2008 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Bibliography
1967
Cole, Sylvan, Jr. Raphael Soyer: Fifty Years of Printmaking, 1917-1967. New York: Da Capo Press, 1967, no. 27.
1982
Gettings, Frank. Raphael Soyer: Sixty-Five Years of Printmaking. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982, p. 36, no. 33.
Inscriptions
lower left on stone: RAPHAEL SOYER; lower left in graphite: The Mission; lower right in graphite: Raphael Soyer
Wikidata ID
Q76440480