The Prairie Rider

1933

Levon West

Artist, American, 1900 - 1968

Ernest D. Roth

Printer, American, 1879 - 1964

Prairie Print Makers

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.84 × 22.07 cm (7 13/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 29.85 × 39.37 cm (11 3/4 × 15 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.1488

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Torrington 1930, undescribed

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 B, pp. 122-123, no. 3.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Levon West; lower center in graphite: Levon West imp.; lower left corner in graphite by unknown hand: "The Prairie Rider."

Markings

stamped center verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Watermarks

[hammer and anvil]

Wikidata ID

Q77012919

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