Jap Farmer, Okinawa, 1944

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Medium

charcoal on prepared wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 22.23 × 26.35 cm (8 3/4 × 10 3/8 in.)

sheet: 28.26 × 33.18 cm (11 1/8 × 13 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of the artist)

Accession Number

2015.19.558

Artists / Makers

Robert L. Benney (artist) American, 1904 - 2001

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Inscription

lower right in black ink: (Jap Farmer, Okinawa) wounded / by / Japs }; lower right in black ink: 31st I. rt. / Saipan - 6/44 / Robert Benney; lower right edge in graphite by unknown hand: 9 1/2 / 11 1/2 18/22 UPRIGHT

Provenance

the artist, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1948; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Benney, Robert L.
Corcoran Gallery of Art

Bibliography

1983: Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 198, no. 1334.