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Corn Husking in the Mountains, 1951-1952

Not on View

series Title

The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore

Medium

wood engraving in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 17.94 × 12.54 cm (7 1/16 × 4 15/16 in.)

sheet: 22.86 × 16.83 cm (9 × 6 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

2015.19.1264

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

lower left in graphite: 18/150 Corn husking in the mountains; lower right in graphite: Clare Leighton

stamped center 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

1952: White, Newman Ivey, ed. The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, vol. 1. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1952, pp. 126-127.

1977: Fletcher, William D. Clare Leighton, An Exhibition: American Sheaves, English Seed Corn. Massachusetts: Boston Public Library, 1977, p.

Corn Husking in the Mountains, 1951-1952