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In the Night

1939

Morris Graves

Artist, American, 1910 - 2001

Medium

brush and black ink with tempera on laid paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn)
Dimensions

sheet: 63.82 × 73.82 cm (25 1/8 × 29 1/16 in.)
Accession

2015.19.3375

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Olga Hirshhorn, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2004; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1992

Art of Our Time: Works on Paper from the Olga Hirshhorn Collection, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1992-1996

2007

Olga Hirshhorn Collects: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2007

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: In the night; lower right in graphite: M graves 39

Wikidata ID

Q64617966

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