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Drawbridge

1936

Milton Avery

Artist, American, 1885 - 1965

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: 16.35 × 33.02 cm (6 7/16 × 13 in.)
Accession

1991.233.91
Catalogue Raisonné

Lunn 1973, no. 10

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Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1994

Milton Avery: Works on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York; Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana; Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania; James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1994-1996.

Bibliography

1973

Lunn, Harry H., Jr. Milton Avery: Prints 1933-1955. Washington, D.C.: Graphics International Ltd., 1973, no. 10.

Wikidata ID

Q63571119

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