The Four Net Menders
1934 (published 1950)
Artist, American, 1888 - 1976
Publisher, 1932 - 1954
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut in black on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 27.94 × 21.11 cm (11 × 8 5/16 in.)
sheet: 36.83 × 26.51 cm (14 1/2 × 10 7/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.1337
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
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. 152-153, no. 37.
Inscriptions
lower left in graphite: The Four Net Menders; lower right in graphtie: Robert von Neumann
Markings
stamped lower center verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]
Wikidata ID
Q77009064