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Celebrating American art and artists
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Artists Reimagining the Collection
Meet the 50 makers selected from more than 1,600 submissions

Gloxinias

1950

Elizabeth Saltonstall

Associated Names

Elizabeth Saltonstall

Artist, American, 1900 - 1990

George C. Miller

Printer, American, 1894 - 1966

Prairie Print Makers

Publisher

The image displays detailed drawings of large flowers with frilly petals and large, textured leaves in shades of black and white. The flowers are positioned in the forefront surrounded by leaves that fill most of the background space.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph in black
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Dimensions

image: 24.8 × 28.6 cm (9 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.)
sheet: 40 × 30.5 cm (15 3/4 × 12 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.4227

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1990

Czestochowski, Joseph S. James Swann: In Quest of a Printmaker, with Presentation Prints of the Chicago Society of Etchers, Prairie Print Makers, and the Woodcut Society. Iowa: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, 1990, appendix B, p. 129, no. 20.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Gloxinias; lower right in graphite: Elizabeth Saltonstall

Wikidata ID

Q76443061

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