Brazilian Builders, 1933

Not on View

Medium

etching in black on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 42.86 × 21.27 cm (16 7/8 × 8 3/8 in.)

sheet: 48.9 × 28.42 cm (19 1/4 × 11 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Ryan 1984, no. 59

Accession Number

2017.19.7

Artists / Makers

James E. Allen (artist) American, 1894 - 1964

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Inscription

lower left in graphite: To My Good Friends / Helen and Hoyt Smith James E Allen; lower right in graphite: James E Allen; lower left margin in graphite: Building the Dam Brazil 18_00_[zeros underlined and in superscript]

Provenance

Helen and Hoyt Smith, Campbell, New York; A. Thompson Ellwanger, III, and Gregory Mescha, Baltimore, Maryland; acquired 2017 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Ellwanger III and Mr. Gregory E. Mescha, A. Thompson, Mr.

Bibliography

1984: Ryan, Mary. James E. Allen. New York: Mary Ryan Gallery, 1984, p. 33, no. 59.