Sowing, 1932

Not on View

The Farmer's Year

wood engraving in black on laid paper

image: 21.59 × 25.4 cm (8 1/2 × 10 in.)

sheet: 27.31 × 32.86 cm (10 3/4 × 12 15/16 in.)

Lehman 1977, no. 219

2015.19.1270

Clare Leighton (artist) American, born England, 1898 - 1989

lower left in graphite: XX/XX Sowing; lower right in graphite Clare Leighton

stamped lower right verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Bristow, Frank B.
Corcoran Gallery of Art

1979: British Prints from the Bristow Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1979

1933: Leighton, Clare. The Farmer's Year: A Calendar of English Husbandry. New York: Longmans, Green and Company, 1933, p. 16 (illustration for April).

1977: Fletcher, William D. Clare Leighton, An Exhibition: American Sheaves, English Seed Corn. Massachusetts: Boston Public Library, 1977, p. 13, no. 219.