Rabbi Reading

1919-1920

Max Weber

Artist, American, born Poland, 1881 - 1961

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    hand-colored woodcut on wove paper mounted to paperboard

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jack and Margrit Vanderryn

  • Dimensions

    image: 10.8 × 4.92 cm (4 1/4 × 1 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 11.43 × 5.4 cm (4 1/2 × 2 1/8 in.)
    mount: 12.38 × 10.48 cm (4 7/8 × 4 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.114.33

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rubenstein 2013, no. 15


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Arnold Newman; (Christie's, New York, February 9, 2007, sale 1800, lot 44); Jack and Margrit Vanderryn, Bethesda, Maryland, 2007; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1956

  • Weber, Max. Woodcuts and Linoleum Blocks. New York: E. Weyhe, 1956.

2013

  • Rubenstein, Daryl R. Max Weber: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Graphic Work. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 2013, pp. 38, 152-154, fig. 6, no. 15.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Best wishes to / my friend Arnold Newman; lower right in graphite: Max Weber

Wikidata ID

Q77015786


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