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It Can't Happen Here Distorted Swastika

1934

Werner Drewes

Associated Names

Werner Drewes

Artist, American, 1899 - 1985

The image shows bold, angular shapes and thick intersecting lines on a textured background. The composition may resemble a figure with limbs constructed from bendy, rectangular blocks surrounding a round central shape. The textured lines fill the negative space, giving the impression of wood grain or layered fabric.

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Artwork overview

Medium

linocut
Credit Line

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

image: 15.2 × 26 cm (6 × 10 1/4 in.)
sheet: 191 × 27.9 cm (75 3/16 × 11 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.1538
Catalogue Raisonné

Rose 1984, no. III.97

Artwork history & notes

Inscriptions

in pencil: lower right, W. Drewes.

Wikidata ID

Q76457644

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