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Sleeping Baby

1933

Milton Avery

Artist, American, 1885 - 1965

Milton Avery

Medium

drypointed zinc plate
Credit Line

Gift of the Avery Family, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Dimensions

plate: 14.2 x 19.5 cm (5 9/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
Accession Number

1991.233.87
Catalogue Raisonné

Lunn 1973, no. 4

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Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2004

Discovering Milton Avery: Two Devoted Collectors, Louis Kaufman and Duncan Phillips, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 2004.

Bibliography

1973

Lunn, Harry H., Jr. Milton Avery: Prints 1933-1955. Washington, D.C.: Graphics International Ltd., 1973, no. 4.

Wikidata ID

Q63571114

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