We Have Been Believers
1949
Artist, American, 1918 - 1979
Printer, American, 1920 - 2003
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: 29.21 × 27.94 cm (11 1/2 × 11 in.)
sheet: 45.4 × 33.02 cm (17 7/8 × 13 in.) -
Accession
2008.115.289
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Catalogue Raisonné
Gedeon 1981, no. Ea8
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Reba and Dave Williams, Greenwich, Connecticut; acquired 2008 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2016
Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 96.
Bibliography
1981
Gedeon, Lucinda Heyel. Introduction to the Work of Charles W. White with a Catalogue Raisonné. MA thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, 1981, no. Ea8.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: "We·Have·Been·Believers"; lower right in graphite: Charles·White '49; lower left edge in graphite by unknown hand: mat for Mrs. Steigman; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: mat only [underlined] 18 [crossed out text] x / 20 1/4 [undeciphered]; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: Carmen Rodrig
Wikidata ID
Q76440509