Hyenas: Nature's Nocturnal Terrors, 1937

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portfolio Title

Six Wild Animals

Medium

lithograph in black on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 30.48 x 22.86 cm (12 x 9 in.)

sheet: 38.74 x 28.58 cm (15 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Gordon Pocinki

Accession Number

2011.15.6

Artists / Makers

Mordi Gassner (artist) American, 1899 - 1995

Associated American Artists (publisher)

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Inscription

lower left on stone: Mordi Gassner; lower left in graphite: Hyenas: Nature's Nocturnal Terrors; lower center in graphite: To a Scientist from an artist; lower right in graphite: Mordi Gassner / Oct 26 1945

Provenance

Dorothy Gordon Pocinki; by inheritance to her son, Alan Pocinki, Potomac, MD; acquired 2011 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Pocinki, Alan

Bibliography

2016: Windisch, Gail, and Sylvan Cole, Jr. Art for Every Home: An Illustrated Index of Associated American Artists Prints, Ceramics, and Textile Designs. Manhattan: Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, 2016, p. 26, no. 149.