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The Last Trumpet

1937

Boris Artzybasheff

Artist, American, 1899 - 1965

Torch Press

Printer

The Woodcut Society

Publisher, 1932 - 1954

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Artwork overview

Medium

wood engraving in black
Credit Line

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

image: 28.8 × 20.1 cm (11 5/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
sheet: 37.5 × 28.8 cm (14 3/4 × 11 5/16 in.)
Accession

2008.115.708

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 C, pp. 142-143, no. 12.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: "The Last Trumpet"; lower right in graphite: Boris Artzybasheff

Wikidata ID

Q76549864

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