Giraffes: The Tenderness of Nature

1936 (published 1937)

Mordi Gassner

Artist, American, 1899 - 1995

Associated American Artists

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dorothy Gordon Pocinki

  • Dimensions

    image: 30.48 x 22.86 cm (12 x 9 in.)
    sheet: 39.37 x 29.21 cm (15 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2011.15.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dorothy Gordon Pocinki; by inheritance to her son, Alan Pocinki, Potomac, MD; acquired 2011 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

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. 25, no. 148.

Inscriptions

lower left on stone: Mordi / Gassner / 1936; lower left in graphite: Giraffes: The Tenderness of Nature; lower center in graphite: To Dr. Gordon-; lower right in graphite: Mordi Gassner / Oct 26 1945; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: K / Jan. 26 / Brown Board / 661

Wikidata ID

Q76557477

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