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Begonia

1929

Howard Cook

Associated Names

Howard Cook

Artist, American, 1901 - 1980

The image shows a potted plant with broad leaves and small flowers emerging. The color palette includes black, white, and grey, emphasizing the contrast in textures and forms. The plant fills most of the frame, with leaves overlapping slightly in a circular arrangement within the pot. The flowers are nestled among the leaves in the central area.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph in black on chine collé on wove paper
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Dimensions

image: 22.2 × 31.8 cm (8 3/4 × 12 1/2 in.)
sheet: 32.4 × 50.8 cm (12 3/4 × 20 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.1306
Catalogue Raisonné

Duffy 1984, no. 104

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Kennedy Galleries via Mann-Williams Antiques, New York, NY; Dave and Reba Williams, Greenwich, CT, February 1985; gift to NGA, December 2008

Associated Names

Dave H. and Reba W. Williams

Bibliography

1984

Duffy, Betty and Douglas. The Graphic Work of Howard Cook: A Catalogue Raisonné. Maryland: Bethesda Art Gallery, 1984, p. 89, no. 104.

Inscriptions

lower right in graphite: Howard Cook 1929

Wikidata ID

Q76442970

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