Rural Composition, 1955

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Medium

silverpoint and graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 40.8 × 50.48 cm (16 1/16 × 19 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, 11th Area Exhibition Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.876

Artists / Makers

Pietro Lazzari (artist) American, 1898 - 1979

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Inscription

lower center in graphite: Pietro Lazzari; upper left verso in black ink by unknown hand on adhesive label: PIETRO LAZZARI / 3609 Albemarle St. N.W. / Washington, D.C. / RURAL Compotision / Silverpoint. / 1955 $150.00; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand on adhesive label: Parsons

Provenance

the artist, Washington, DC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1956; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

1963: Progress of An American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963

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. 191, no. 1287.