Miner's Head
1937
Artist, American, 1916 - 2010
Publisher
Artwork overview
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Medium
aquatint in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
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Dimensions
plate: 37.5 x 29.8 cm (14 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.)
sheet: 46 x 37.3 cm (18 1/8 x 14 11/16 in.) -
Accession
2008.115.2223
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Catalogue Raisonné
Wechsler 1996, no. 38
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Mary Ryan Gallery, NY); Reba and Dave Williams, Greenwich, CT, 1985; gift to NGA, 2008
Associated Names
Bibliography
1990
Williams, Reba and Dave Williams. The Mexican Muralists and Prints from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams. Exh. cat., New York: 1990.
1991
Beall, Karen F., and David W. Kiehl. Graphic Excusrions: American Prints in Black and White, 1900-1950, Selections from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams. Boston, Massachusetts: D. R. Godine, 1991, p. 28.
1996
Wechsler, James. "The Great Depression and the Prints of Blanche Grambs." Print Quarterly XIII (December 1996): no. 38.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: © 1937; lower center in graphite: Miners Head; lower right in graphite: Blanche Grambs
Markings
stamped lower center verso in black: FEDERAL ART PROJECT / NYC WPA
Wikidata ID
Q76442971