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The Last Load

1939

Alice Standish Buell

Artist, American, 1892 - 1960

Associated American Artists

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Artwork overview

Medium

drypoint in black
Credit Line

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

image: 18.8 × 26.7 cm (7 3/8 × 10 1/2 in.)
sheet: 27.3 × 37.1 cm (10 3/4 × 14 5/8 in.)
Accession

2008.115.1101

Artwork history & notes

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. 42, no. 316.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Last Load; lower right in graphite: Alice Standish Buell. imp.; lower left corner in graphite by unknown hand: drypoint

Watermarks

J. Whatman

Wikidata ID

Q76455959

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