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Cloth vs. Steel

c. 1940s

Bertha Mae Landers

Associated Names

Bertha Mae Landers

Artist, American, 1911 - 1996

The image shows two large gloved hands holding a piece of cloth over a metal bolt above bricks marked with "BO" lettering. The color palette is grayscale. In the foreground, there is a shoe, laces visible, to the left, and two paint cans to the right, one holding a large brush. The shoe is on the edge of a wooden palette with circular metal buttons on its surface.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper
Credit Line

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

image: 216 x 251 mm
paper: 330 x 362 mm
Accession Number

2008.115.3019

Artwork history & notes

Inscriptions

Inscribed: In pencil: lower left, Cloth vs. Steel 21/25; lower right, Bertha Landers.

Wikidata ID

Q76443209

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