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Fossombrone

1959

Carol Summers

Artist, American, 1925 - 2016

Medium

color woodcut on laid paper
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)
Dimensions

sheet: 90.49 × 91.12 cm (35 5/8 × 35 7/8 in.)
Accession

2015.19.1034
Catalogue Raisonné

Summers 1988, no. 37

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Associated American Artists, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1965; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1988

Summers, Carol. Carol Summers: Catalogue Raisonné, Woodcuts 1950-1988. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: David Barnett Gallery; Boston, Massachusetts: Randall Beck Gallery, 1988, p. 26, no. 37.

Inscriptions

upper left in graphite: 21/50 Fossombrone; upper right in graphite; Carol Summers

Wikidata ID

Q77013532

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