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Afternoon Nap

1948

Doris Lee

Artist, American, 1905 - 1983

Associated American Artists

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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: 9.5 × 13.4 cm (3 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.)
sheet: 15.2 × 19.9 cm (6 × 7 13/16 in.)
Accession

2008.115.3089

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2021

Simple Pleasures: The Art of Doris Lee, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; Vero Beach Museum of Art, FL; Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, 2021 - 2023 (shown in Greensburg and Davenport only).

Bibliography

2016

Windisch, Gail, and Sylvan Cole, Jr. Art for Every Home: An Illustrated Index of Associated American Artists Prints, Ceramics, and Textile Designs. Manhattan: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, 2016, p. 111, no. 987.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Doris Lee

Wikidata ID

Q76443283

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